Triumphrat

Simmons

Can anybody who has swapped out the stock speedometer with a MikesXS mini tell me what size or number diode I should get?

I have gone through all the post, printed out the wiring chart, have my triumph manuals in hand, and I am ready to make the change accept for the getting the diodes.

I walked into Radio Shack today, and they had a drawer full of them. As this will be my first attempt at wiring anything on by bike, (other then hooking up the NewBonneville.com plug and play Lucas tail light harness) I thought it would be better to ask you guys before I tried putting the wrong part into the wiring.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best,
Simmons

__________________
'04 Bonneville Black: Progressive fork springs, Ikon rear suspension, mini speedo with D9 bracket, Lucas style tail light, clip-ons, and a few other little mods.

rodburner

Is that the diode to enable both blinkers to activate the LED idiot light? I finished my wire relocate in prep for my new headlight and halogen small SilverBullet running/turn signals from Kuryakyn.Not being sure how the running/turn module wires in [don`t have it yet]I didn`t try to correct the indicator issue,but will probably just wire an LED in,in series with the blinker in question [right side] so each blinker side will have an indicator. The wiring harness that Triumph employs was pretty simple save for some odd doublebacks,which link vital operations to seemingly extraneous harnesses,ie: the front brake light activation is doubled back to one of the AI connectors.That added an hour of head scratching,taping and untaping and retaping the harness to correct. Made me wish I had the manual. :-D But,its all done now and cleaned up the front pretty well.

Curiously,the part I dreaded relocating most,turned out to be the quickest and easiest aspect of the whole job,just requiring enlargement of one mounting hole,that being the rectifier,which fits good right between the forks where my horn used to be. :-D

You may have to look thru the mini gauge topics to find the proper diode,but you may check with Loxpump,cuz I think he got it figured out for us.

__________________
" A man is only as old as the women he feels" G Marx

Simmons

I am talking about the diode to enable both blinkers to activate the LED idiot light. Thanks for the tip about who to ask.

Your new wiring looks great. Can't wait to see what it looks like with the new lights on there.

All the best,
Simmons

__________________
'04 Bonneville Black: Progressive fork springs, Ikon rear suspension, mini speedo with D9 bracket, Lucas style tail light, clip-ons, and a few other little mods.

Mancha

I'm thinking about putting my rectifier down there as well Rodburner, so nice to see that you were succesful. Then I start to wonder why I'm replacing what I considered to be my ugly horn with an even uglier rectifier...hm?

__________________
Ogle my bike here.

rodburner

I only put it there because I didn`t have anyplace to hide the wiring plugs.The wires weren`t long enough to get it under the engine,but since I ended up shortening those wires about 8",it shouldn`t be to difficult to lengthen them and do a proper "invisable" relocate.

__________________
" A man is only as old as the women he feels" G Marx

jkieler

I had gotten the manual with the bike

__________________
FAVORITE QUOTE "YOU CAN FIX LOOKS, BUT YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!"