{"id":1633,"date":"2010-07-02T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:07:19","slug":"how-to-black-out-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2010\/07\/how-to-black-out-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Black-Out Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simplifying the redundant stock wiring harness on my CB500T was absolutely necessary in my mind when I started planning out my build.\u00a0I ditched\u00a0the stock handle bar switches and replaced them with 2\u00a0toggles to control power to the lights and coil seperately.\u00a0Here’s a basic overview of the light switch… a lo\/kill\/hi switch. Besides being able to black-out my lights \/ run from the cops switch, it also comes in handy to conserve battery power while adjusting the timing or having to start the bike on a low battery.<\/p>\n

1. Double Pole\u00a0Double Throw (DPDT) switch. I bought mine from McMaster-Carr<\/a>. The switch has 6 poles and 3 switch positions (ON-OFF-ON).\u00a0 For comparison, the wired switch, pictured below, \u00a0is a Single Pole Double Throw (SPDT)\u00a0which has 3 poles and can only switch 1 circuit.<\/p>\n

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2. The DPDT switch has the functionality to switch 2 circiuts which is what I needed.<\/p>\n

Circuit #1: low beam –\u00a0OFF – high beam.<\/p>\n

Circuit #2: tail\/gauge lights –\u00a0OFF – tail\/gauge lights.<\/p>\n

Here is the switch wired up. The black wire (1 to 2 wire) is hot when the ignition is on and feeds both poles. So to explain, the first ON position turns on the low beam and tail\/gauge lights and the second ON position turns on the high beam and tail\/gauge lights.<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 Switch mounted in my gauge bracket. The wires are heat wrapped and run into the headlight bucket.<\/p>\n

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4. My slimmed down wiring diagram so you can see how the switches connect into the rest of the wiring. (color version<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Simplifying the redundant stock wiring harness on my CB500T was absolutely necessary in my mind when I started planning out my build.\u00a0I ditched\u00a0the stock handle bar switches and replaced them with 2\u00a0toggles to control power to the lights and coil seperately.\u00a0Here’s a basic overview of the light switch… a lo\/kill\/hi switch. Besides being able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}