Sports: Re: [DucatiST] Melted wires on 99 ST4

Ha....had a similar probem on my '99SS. Every once in a while it blew a fuse (forget which one). Traced it to the light socket in the right rear signal lamp housing. It was pretty corroded and was shorting every once in a while.

I have a feeling stories of bad electrical nit-noys could keep this list running for a few years.

On 7/27/2012 1:50 PM, Rolland Waters wrote:

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Walt <d888spoltd@aol.com> wrote:

My '95 SP connector to the headlight had this same thing happen. But it was while riding home night across the Arizona desert! Melted the damned thing good.

Same thing on my '93 SS. Luckily I was parked near a bar and outside my bank, so I had more options than Walt. :-)

     My FE melted the headlight socket, when I went to replace it I found a ceramic one. The wires may melt but not the socket.
      Another strange electrical bug with this bike was the horn fuse would blow on ever other ride or so. Its a 7 amp fuse and not real common.
     I realized when I looked at the schematic that it caused me to loose my brake light also. Well finally I traced it to the micro switch on the front
    brake assembly. It would only happen so often and was tricky to find but luck and 35 years as an industrial electrician helped. I bought a pack
    of 24 on Ebay for 5$ so I have a few spares.

                    Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Marren <bmarren@bellsouth.net>
To: st2_owners <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 3:39 pm
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] Melted wires on 99 ST4

On 7/27/2012 1:50 PM, Rolland Waters wrote:

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Walt <d888spoltd@aol.com> wrote:

My '95 SP connector to the headlight had this same thing happen. But it was while riding home night across the Arizona desert! Melted the damned thing good.

Same thing on my '93 SS. Luckily I was parked near a bar and outside my bank, so I had more options than Walt. :-)

     My FE melted the headlight socket, when I went to replace it I found a ceramic one. The wires may melt but not the socket.
      Another strange electrical bug with this bike was the horn fuse would blow on ever other ride or so. Its a 7 amp fuse and not real common.
     I realized when I looked at the schematic that it caused me to loose my brake light also. Well finally I traced it to the micro switch on the front
    brake assembly. It would only happen so often and was tricky to find but luck and 35 years as an industrial electrician helped. I bought a pack
    of 24 on Ebay for 5$ so I have a few spares.

                    Bob

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