my rusty 2-wheeled

the DIY fire is burning in me once again as i have the time to waste now.
was meddling with rusty today, trying to convert more bulbs to LEDs and also add on some nice nice bling bling LEDs to her - yea u may think it is ah beng but it is a fun project. to me it is about doing the hands on myself and getting the satisfaction out of it rather than paying someone else to do it.

got most of my electronic stuff together except a few others.

i still cannot convert my signal indicators to LEDs but at least there was progress - i managed to get them blinking (common problem of LEDs conversion is that the stock relay is not able to draw enough current due to the LEDs nature of low current consumption therefor assumes that there is a outage, blow out bulb, and and indicates this by not flashing). i couldn't replace the blow out LEDs in my long ago converted brake indicator due to a faulty solder "sucker" rawr. and also was lacking the correct size hex key so i was unable to remove the fairing to replace a new set of LED brake indicator which i have in hand already. so what had i done, added a bling bling green LEDs to the front wheel.

..then shit happened as i was about to finish connection of the green LEDs. i left the live connection dangling and it touched rusty frame which was grounded and sparks came out - this resulted in a short circuit. then there was total power lost. no lights nothing... i thought my battery was a goner. but lucky rusty is a kick starter bike so i could still start it and ride it. the headlamps and brake lights could still function but less the signals and horn which were dead. i thought i had either flattened or killed the battery. so i keep riding it around hoping the the alternator could charge back up the battery to prove that it is still alive but it still flat-lined. without starting the engine, no electrical stuff worked..

so i went online googled read all about vehicle/motorcycle batteries, how to charge it and problems with batteries and all. till i stumble onto this page which talks about the fuse. it started to hit me, after 2 years in the army i had forgotten all about the basic of electrical troubleshooting. start from the source to the fuse to the load and then the grounding. then i ran down to the bike again, took out the fuse and inspected it - indeed it has blown and then i got the reserve fuse on, crossed my fingers and on the electrical switch. all lights were back on without the engine running.!!

finally after so much speculation the problem has been solved and it was none of the speculated problems. plans to send rusty for battery charging/replacement tomorrow morning can be scraped.

long live rusty!!

more conversion to come =)

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