Electricity

I wired up the last few lights today and decided to test things out. It has been a while since I did most of the wiring so I was anxious to see if things worked.

...so I hooked up the battery and turned the ignition switch, carefully listening and looking for strange sounds/sparks/smoke (you never know), as soon as I turned the switch....BEEEEEEEEEEP !!!! &$?!*!?! It's amazing how loud a motorcycle horn can be inside your garage.

I turned off the ignition, took a few deep breaths to bring my heartbeat back to normal, then scratched my head trying to figure out what happened. Tested the horn button, seemed okay, then pressed it a little harder and "click". That's odd, a momentary switch shouldn't click...turns out it's an on/off pushbutton switch (that happened to be in the on position).

With the horn temporarily fixed I tried again, no horn, but the turn signals were flashing. Didn't take long to figure out that I used the same switchs for the horn button and turn signals...

I didn't see any smoke or hear strange noises so proceeded to check everything out

fuel pump, starter, front turn signals, front marker lights...check!

rear turn signals, brakes, marker lights and headlights...nothing...

Tomorrow is another day...