High beam switch

[darrsi]

:agree

Sounds like a chaffed wire somewhere.

So, after changing the left switch housing the problem still remained, but after a bit of jiggery pokery you were right, there was what looks like a chafed cable but i'm not exactly sure why because there was nothing actually near it to damage it.
It was one of the cables going into the headlight plug. That's now been soldered and heat shrinked so that's one issue out of the way.


After mentioning to my mate about the battery going flat if i ever use the headlight he did a quick check on the electrical circuit.


The volts were fine with the engine running, showing around the 14.5v mark.


But when he checked the amps it wasn't so good.
With all gadgets and lights off it was reading 6amps @ 5000rpm.
Problem is the manual says it should be 18 amps @ 5000rpm.
Then as you can imagine once i started turning lights on it just kept dropping.  In fact i should've tried it with the heated grips on as well.
With all lights on, including high beam, it went down to a reading as low as 1.5 amps.


So obviously something ain't right, but does anyone know exactly what the problem is?
I just don't do electrics, but first thoughts is an alternator issue perhaps?