Thursday 26 July 2012

Electrical Fire

Ahh Crap, working on the Blue Vespa and must have had a short in the electrical system, reconnected battery and went to fire it up. There is the dreaded smoke -- one of the wires has burnt along the entire harness. Looks like I'll need to replace the entire thing :/ Shitty Deal

The Wire that burnt was the black one connected to where the Zener Diode is on the red bike.. I guess I know for sure if it is needed or not now. I could see smoke from the wire under the seat then run up to the front of the bikes column. Oddly I noticed they have on the red bike a 20 Amp Fuse and on the blue bike was a 30 Amp Fuse. I suspect this isn't the first time this has happened to this bike, it will probably need a new 12V stator as well which I have read is usually the cause of this sort of thing