SR500 Ignition Question

[ChrisA1983]

Hi all,

New to the forum and new to bike building. Picked up a half done kick start SR500 chopper conversion recently and have an ignition question.

Just installing a fuse box and it comes with 3 wires; positive, negative and positive ignition. My question is, when putting a tester on my current ignition, it's showing as 2 negatives (1 in the on and 1 in off position). Obviously on connecting the ignition wire to this (before checking!), it blew the fuse. Is 2 negatives correct? And if so, where would I connect the ignition positive? Obviously if I touch it to the positive on the battery everything works fine.

So hard to find anywhere where you can ask a quick question so hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction

Thanks in advance.

[Nobby the Bastard]

I would imagine (if it doesn't earth through its body) oneof the positives is for the lighting etc. and one is for the sparks with a common earth.
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[jeffyjeff]

[WD Forte]

None of this makes any sense to me.
why would a fuse box have a ground wire?
what function would that serve?
a fuse box isbasically, a pass through device
Power in and distributed power out, thassit.
No grounds needed.

The whole description is highly suspect (bollox) to me
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[jeffyjeff]

[stinkwheel]

Surely the fuse should be between the battery and the rest of the wiring, as near to the battery as you can get it.
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