Just came back from a ride, had to stop at the store and my high beam indicator comes on. I touch the switch, nope, still on lows. I flick it to high and then low, nope, dash light is still on. I pulled over at the store and discovered that my headlight was out, both beams. Great, new bulb, just put it in two weeks ago. Went into the store, came out, fired the bike up, the high beam dash light was now off and I could see my lights reflecting on a car that was driving by. WTF? I ride back home, about two minutes, and the dash light comes back on as I'm pulling in. Got off the bike and checked, yup, no headlight. I reached underneath to the harness to make sure it wasn't loose and the headlight comes on, and the dash light goes off. Huh! So I played around for a bit and the harness was on tight so it must be a loose wire. Jiggled them and yup, could make the headlight flicker. It must of happened when I was wiring in the diodes for my turn signal led swap. At the time, it was pretty tough to get the harness off the old bulb. Guess I pulled a wire slightly loose. Gonna go and have a look now to see which one it is.
So, here's the question, is it normal to have the high beam dash light work as a warning lamp for a blown bulb on these bikes? Or could this be an added bonus to the dash led swap and diode wiring I had to do? Basics of the wiring, all LEDs were plug and play except the turn signal. For that I had to to wire in two diodes. Basically, the two wires that lead up to the turn signal were cut, and each was attached to a 1 amp diode. The diodes were then joined and soldered to the one side of the original turn signal lead. The second lead from the turn signal was grounded, in this case, to the high beam dash light.
Here's a pic, not exactly what I did as I mentioned, I grounded to the headlight dash light ground.
