Annunciator Wiring

AllNewbie

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I bought my bike with Ultima wiring harness, so some of the colors may be different than stock, but my bike never had the annunciator hooked up. Mine is the 8 pin plug and for the most part I have it wired up. A couple of my bulbs are no good so I'll need to replace the unit anyways but I can't seem to figure out where a couple of the wires are supposed to go

So far I have both blinkers hooked up and the high beam working. The neutral switch and oil pressure ones I can not get to work.

I also have a white, brown, pink and green wire coming from the annunciator left over. I'm assuming green is for the neutral switch and one other must be the oil pressure...with no more led's left that leaves me 2 wires hooked to nothing
This is what I've been going off from...
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Anybody have any idea what I seem to be missing? Or why neither of my oil or neutral wiring seems to cause any voltage change?
 

Sven

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Black at the bottom looks like it's grounding the winkers and lights, meaning, my guess is the winks are already grounded by the mounting there of... get the flow to complete a circuit?

Red at the top shows hot to N so N should be grounded is that wire, or the jobber as a ground (no ground wire). Where red should be hot with key on, right? So first, key on, are all red wires hot? Because, N is grounded, but hot has to be running all the time, so N's pin spins off the hot end of the button say, and that breaks N from being lit. Same with the oil sensor... pressure moves the touch point away from (+).
 

AllNewbie

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Yes all reds are hot under there. I tried my best to comprehend your response and I think for the most part I understood it.

So of the 4 wires left coming out of the pin on the annunciator, let's say for arguments sake...
GRN to Yellow (neutral)
White to oil
Out of the 2 left (Brown and pink) one of them needs to be hooked to a constant 12v? Or a switched 12v?

Am I understanding that correctly?

If so, that leaves one wire from the pin left over. I looked everywhere for a schematic of the stock big dog annunciator wiring harness and couldn't find one to see what each color actually went to
 

AllNewbie

Member
Ok, so the first picture came from the Ultima wiring, this is one I just finally found.
Looks like the Red goes to the oil, and then the other end of the oil sensor switch (i'm assuming the ground?) comes back to complete the circuit and attaches to the brown wire of the annunciator harness.

Same with the neutral. one side goes from green and then after the sensor, back to the white.
Annunciator Pin Out.jpg
 

Sven

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It looks like it to me too. With a remote wire, I'd strike it and watch both lights come on. If the arc is hard and blue say, it's a short. If it's orange on the strike and the lights flicker, looks like you got it, meaning, it's not a direct short with those hots heading to ground but to N and Oil.

Edit: Pink and Green I have no clue?
 
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Jwooky

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The neutral and oil are ground switching. You need power at the LED, the the neutral switch and oil pressure switch provide the ground.
 
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