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May
Scooter lights work!
For the past 2 weeks my scooter lights haven’t been working. That isn’t such a big deal during the day when you can do hand signals, but it’s dangerous at night. Yesterday I took it apart until I found out where the action goes on electrically.
Under the front panel is a mess of wires behind the headlight area. These are for engaging the ignition, controlling the signals, and running the lights. However it isn’t where your problems are going to come in. The area you really want it behind the plastic that is under the front of the seat. There is one long screw holding it in place in addition to 2 under the seat that hold the bucket (under the seat) to it. Here is where you find the main controller for the motor and another mess of wires.
On a previous visit to behind the headlights I wrote the function of the various wires on teh wire connectors and I should have done it on the seat panel too but I neglected to do it. Anyway, 3 of the wires lead to a connector that connects to the light controller that lives under/in the floor board. In my case, these wires were run behind and under the main controller and the jostling from riding eventually cut one of those wires.
I stripped the teo ends and twisted and soldered them together and covered it in electrical tape. Then I packed everything away and now I’m back as good as new!