Wiring Advice- relays

Cillit-BANG · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Karma :

So, I'm trying to get my head around building up a loom for my NC30-road bike. I'm stumped at the relays though. I understand they allow high drain usages to use low powered switches without putting too much current through them and their cables. So, I'm looking at buying 2 relays for the high/low beam circuits. The wiring diagram for the relay I have replicated on the right here...

https://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q292/Cillit-BANG/RelayDiagramcopy.jpg

With the extract from the wiring diagram (left) for reference, am I wiring it up properly?

Cheers for any help. These relays are £1.87, does that sound about right?

Anthony.

And no, I have no intention of using the old loom. I prefer to make my own due to the bizarre locations of my components!!

Stiffler · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

Aye that's right. I recently added a Low Beam relay to my NC30 the same way. Good luck with the loom rebuild. Seems like hard work to me.

Tim
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Cillit-BANG · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Karma :

Cheers dude.

Nowt like a bit of hard work Smile

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Now you need to find said terminals on the relay because they are numbered.

30 from battery
85 from switch
86 to earth
87 to bulb
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Cillit-BANG · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Karma :

S'ok Stink, the pin layout is also on the diagram in the catalogue Smile

https://www.vehicle-wiring-products.co.uk/VWPweb2000/relays/relays.html#gen442

If you remember, this was originally the loom which you kindly helped me out with last October time for my trackbike project. It ended up looking like this-

https://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q292/Cillit-BANG/MarchBike.jpg

And we had a cracking day around Cadwell last monday, holding my own in the inters group.

It's now getting converted to be road legal though, hence the headlamp relays!

Cheers though. Thumbs Up