Is it the Brown or the Blue wire?

Boxertools · Post by **Boxertools** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:07 pm

I am attempting to wire up my Autocom and have been told to use the live wire to the tail light.
I have found the wire going to the No plate light, so I suppose it's ok to cut into that but which is the live brown or blue?

Mike h

stephenb · Post by **stephenb** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:53 pm

No dont!! the number plate light wires are not up to it. Follow the wires down to where they join the slightly thicker rear light wires and tie them in there. If you wait till tomorrow I will tell you which wires to which.

Stephen B

stempy · Post by **stempy** » Sun May 30, 2004 5:01 pm

You'd be better of taking it from the accessory socket wiring.

Boxertools · Post by **Boxertools** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:17 pm

OK, will wait until tomorrow.

Andy
Autocom told me not to wire up to socket, as that would be live all the time.

Mike h

stempy · Post by **stempy** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:17 pm

Boxertools wrote:OK, will wait until tomorrow.

Andy
Autocom told me not to wire up to socket, as that would be live all the time.

Mike h

Fair point if the Autocom unit stay on the bike all the time, but not a problem if it's the type you unplug when you get off.

Boxertools · Post by **Boxertools** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:49 pm

Andy,
The unit does stay on the bike and should be hard wired because Autocom say that there would be some kind of interference if wired wrongly.
Something to do with blah blah blah............ as I told you once before, give me a tree & I'll make you a kitchen, give me an engine and a load of wires & I'll give you a very puzzled cabinet maker!
Anyhow, I was very pleased with how I mounted the unit.
Autocom say that on the s, they take out the puncture repair kit & fit it in the hole thats left.
I, cut out some of the rubber box that the kit is mounted in a fitted it inside, only loosing the space for 1 gas bottle.

By the way, it is being used for rider to pillion, music, phone and sat nav.

Mike.

stempy · Post by **stempy** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:01 am

Sounds neat. According to my wiring diagram there are three wires to the tail light unit. Brown is the ground connection, grey/black for the tail light andgrey/yellow for the brake light. It seems to me that if you use the feed for the tail light you will only have utocom when the lights are on

I will look into it deeper a bit later.

Boxertools · Post by **Boxertools** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:24 am

When the lights are on will probably be ok

Mike

stephenb · Post by **stephenb** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:46 am

OK Red (autocom) goes to Grey with a black stripe (bike) and the black with a red stripe(autocom) goes to the brown (bike). I have use connectors but, I will probably cut the wires solder them and then shrink fit. If you turn off the lights off goes the autocom and the same when you turn off the ignition.

Stephen B

Boxertools · Post by **Boxertools** » Mon May 31, 2004 2:41 pm

OK, done that and it works fine.
Not very happy with the clip on type wire connectors but the only other thing I've got is wood glue!

Mike h

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Mon May 31, 2004 7:41 pm

Boxertools wrote:OK, done that and it works fine.
Not very happy with the clip on type wire connectors but the only other thing I've got is wood glue!

Mike h

Wood glue will be fine, someone said it was a good conductor didn't they

Lloyd

ps mine only works with the lights on which is fine if you want the option of muting the advice from the backseat

smiliebiker · Post by **smiliebiker** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:45 pm

stephenb wrote:OK Red (autocom) goes to Grey with a black stripe (bike) and the black with a red stripe(autocom) goes to the brown (bike). I have use connectors but, I will probably cut the wires solder them and then shrink fit. If you turn off the lights off goes the autocom and the same when you turn off the ignition.

Stephen B

Bloody marvellous - just wired the autocom up - but wired the earth direct to battery - shows the search function works well too! & as the BCR 04 lights are permanently on so it the autocom! Is that a good thing though

Thanks Ste

r550s · Post by **r550s** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:06 pm

just in case anybody thought there was anything remotely good about the harmonisation of Uk wiring colours with europe - the brown wire in your car /bike is ground, or 0 volts... and the brown wire in your house is 240 volts. No danger there then...