Disconnected wire problem (not bulb problem)

[Essex_Mike]

About 4 weeks ago my headlight blew, then about a week later my tail light blew. Now my headlight only allows high beam but no low beam or parkign light.

What could cause this to keep happening? Im using the bulbs that it states in the manuals.

Or am I just being unlucky with the bloody things.

Cheers, Mike
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Previous Bike - Suzuki EN125
Current Bike - Suzuki GS500F

[Kickstart]

Hi

Would suspect a dodgy battery might be the original cause of the blowing bulb.

All the best

Keith
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[Essex_Mike]

Is there any other signs I should look out for while riding to see if it is the battery?


Cheers, Mike
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[sagiliam]

Hi,

The bulbs have two filaments. If one of the headlight filaments has

blown then this could of caused your tail light to blow. Happened

to me; my main headlight filament blew, caused by tail light to blow

but not my parking light.

Have you checked the bulbs? If not, first thing to do!

Ls

[Essex_Mike]

Yeh have checked the bulbs, one fillament broken in headlight, then the parking light for the front has gone aswell. Tail light is fine (at moment)
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Previous Bike - Suzuki EN125
Current Bike - Suzuki GS500F

[Kickstart]

[Essex_Mike]

Ok cheers, will check tomorrow. My dads mate said it could be the regulator?
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[sagiliam]

[Essex_Mike]

First time my headlight bulb blew was around 4 weeks ago. So this new bulb has been in since then.

I will check everything again in morning as my eyes were bloody tired looking at it in garage earlier. So I may have made a stupid mistake when looking at the bulb when taking it out.
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Previous Bike - Suzuki EN125
Current Bike - Suzuki GS500F

[sagiliam]

o right.

Wont hurt to check the earths also. Are you sure that your rear light and brake light are both working?

When it happened to me, only my brake light worked and not
my rear light.So at night i was quite invisible.

As i said though check that all the lights are working, and earths and if they are all ok, then start looking at other things. Like kickstart said, battery etc.


best of luck
Ls

[Finglonga]

[Essex_Mike]

Yeh what you just said about the rearlight happend to me last time! though about a week later for some reason

But I pulled over tonight and swore my head off about the headlight and checked the rearlight just to make sure and everything was working on that fine.

I'll check bulbs, battery fluid level tomorrow and will get back to you. Thanks for ya help
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CBT - Passed - 14/07/2006 Theory - Passed - 19/08/2006 A2 test - Passed -19/07/2007
Previous Bike - Suzuki EN125
Current Bike - Suzuki GS500F

[Essex_Mike]

Right...I've looked at the bike this morning, theres actually nothing wrong with any of th bulbs (yes, im a blind bastard).

Checked the battery...seems fine, the fluid is on the upper level line.
Thought I'd check the fuse as well and nothing wrong with that either. OOO how fun

Any other ideas to what it could be? I've already been told about the regulator, how easy are they to replace?


EDIT: Well I've just looked over the bike again just incase something else was missed while looking earlier, and found this disconnected wire:

Any ideas to what it should be connected to, I've looked over the wiring diagram but it didn't help much coz of the crap quality of it.
https://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9438/dsc00229wm5.jpg

Found nothing on the bike that it could possibly connect to
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CBT - Passed - 14/07/2006 Theory - Passed - 19/08/2006 A2 test - Passed -19/07/2007
Previous Bike - Suzuki EN125
Current Bike - Suzuki GS500F