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This one really has me curious. Ed, you stated that the ground leads from the coils go through the carb heaters, then on to the battery. That other common joint from the coils meets at terminal 1 in the alarm circuit. If you look at the print for the starter circuit, it shows that terminal 1 for the alarm circuit is actually powered from terminal 2 going into the alarm circuit, which comes from the kill switch circuit. This lead goes up to the coils and appears to feed them along with numerous other components like the CDI unit at terminal 2 and the carb vent (which I assume is for California models only). It this wire is live, how could it be a part of the coil ground circuit?

Am I looking at this wrong? Does the ground for the coils go through the CDI or not? The description on how the coils work in the manual isn't that clear.

I wonder if Pieman is around. He programs these units and should know.

BTW, Kevin, does this bike have an alarm circuit installed?



I only took the screen shot from the manual and haven't taken the time to really trace the wiring harness to see if the junctions are set up as parallel lines that can be grounded to kill the circuit so I can't answer properly. That, and, there are known mistakes in the book so the schematic isn't necessarily 100% correct.

There's another post now that he checked the pickup coil gap, found it to be nil, reset it but no go. Might be that the pickup has been compromised OR there's still no discussion of checking the kill switch so that's a variable (and known to fail due to corrosion) that's still out there. Plus, that kill switch appears all over the place in the schematic...

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