Just installed the signal minder - on 2004, R1150R. easy as 1-2-3..
I would like to connect the ' break function' - I need to locate the wire on the bike that connects with a 'break signal wire' on the signal minder, so that whenever I apply breaks - all 4 turn lights blink quickly...
You want to connect the Signalminder's brake sensing wire to the bike's brakelight wire. If I remember correctly it is a grey wire with a stripe on it that runs through the bottom right-hand side of the fuse box to the rear brake light. I reached it by removing the upper part of the fuse box and spliced into it with a connector.
Last edited by Sunbeemer on Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
To avoid splicing any wires, I ran to the brake connection on the tail light. Great device, I set mine for 8 sec and the turn signals as half power marker lights.
The wires for the tail light just plug in to the back of the socket and that is where I hooked it. I installed an LED tail light at the same time and it had a box you have to wire in too, so I don't remember what the color code of wire for the brake light was. I will look tonight and get the info for you.
I, too, would like to know exactly where to connect it to in the tail light -- According to the signalminder booklet, the brake wire is the gray wire with the yellow stripe. So do you remove the male spade connector from the signal minder wire and splice the signal minder wire into the gray-yellow wire at the connector? The gray/yellow wire connector is female, if that makes a difference. I'm a total electronics novice so I need it broken down into the most basic instructions.
Thanks
I checked my Clymer manual and the notes I made when installing the LED light. The brakelight is the yellow-gray wire and is connected to terminal 54 of the taillight socket. Removing the female connector from terminal 54 revealed that the male spade connector on the socket is made up of 2 pieces sandwiched together, I took a six inch piece of 18 ga wire, stripped the wire back about 1/4" and tinned it, then slid it in the gap between the 2 pieces and soldered it in place right next to the socket body (it didn't interfere with the spade connector plugging back in). I put a quick disconnect bullet connector on the other end of the 6" piece of wire so I could disconnect the signalminder if I needed to. Since I was putting in an LED tail/brake light and I have ABS, I had to also connect a box to the taillight and brakelight that I assume fools the ABS unit into thinking they are real bulbs, so my installation was more involved.
Thanks, much, nice explainer. This shows my ignorance: What do you mean when you said "I tinned it." Not sure what tinning is. I'll ask at Radio Shack what a bullet connector is.
I used stranded wire so I "tinned" it with solder to hold all the strands together. Bullet connector is so named because of its bullet shape. Any type of insulated male/female connector combo for quick disconnect purposes would have worked.
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