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I bought the Suzuki if indicator light that you can plug in and shows hours in bike with flashing light everything I had seen said you only needed that part.
Well I got it today and actually found my manual too and it looks like you have to also buy a wire coupler to hook onto a 12v battery to make it work ??
Everything I had read before made sound like you just plugged light in and it went off I assumed it had a battery in it or something.
Anyway has anyone done this whole procedure with there rmz ? I really don't feel like getting a battery and another 38 bucks for the Suzuki wire but would like to know what actual hours are on my bike I never put a hour meter on it at the beginning.
Any help would be awesome ( maybe there's a shortcut to use ?? )
Thanks
Well I got it today and actually found my manual too and it looks like you have to also buy a wire coupler to hook onto a 12v battery to make it work ??
Everything I had read before made sound like you just plugged light in and it went off I assumed it had a battery in it or something.
Anyway has anyone done this whole procedure with there rmz ? I really don't feel like getting a battery and another 38 bucks for the Suzuki wire but would like to know what actual hours are on my bike I never put a hour meter on it at the beginning.
Any help would be awesome ( maybe there's a shortcut to use ?? )
Thanks
I'm debating on ordering the Suzuki battery wire it says you need but then I'll be at like 94 bucks for a light that shows hours and any issues.
If you are wanting to read engine hours you must hook it up to a 12 volt battery. Then the indicator will light up for .2 seconds for every 1 hour of run time. So you will need a digital stop watch as well. A real hassle.
I don't really feel like spending 50 more dollars buying the battery lead wire / coupler plus a battery just to read hours but I also have a fi light that I can't use then lol.
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I don't know for sure if the 250 and 450 are the same concerning wire colors, but I put 12 volts directly to the 2 pin black coupler (black with white tracer, and red wire) on the right side of the bike. Run a wire from the negative terminal of a battery to the black with white tracer wire, then run the positive terminal to the red wire and the indicator light will flash. Then you just need another person and a digital stop watch to start and stop the timer when it lights up a second time. Then convert the time to hours on the bike.
Did you by change try to run bike with just the indicator plugged in and see if it did anything?
And if I read manual right it looks like it comes on then off for a second then flashes for .2 a second which is 1 hour of run time then off for a second and just keeps going till I assume it just stops lighting up then just add up the amount of .2 second blinks you had?
Thanks!
For example;
1: connect FI indicator light.
2: connect 12 volts
3: wait for the first check light to turn on, then turn off
4: at the start of the second light, start timer
5: at the end of the second light, stop timer
6: divide the time the second light stayed on by .2
If your light stays on for 2 seconds, you have 10 hours on your bike. If it stays lit for 3.4 seconds, you have 17 hours on your bike. Just divide your light time by .2 seconds. Its a real pain, and pretty vulnerable to error but it gets you close enough. I needed a second person to start and stop the stopwatch when I connected the 12 volts. And I did it a few times to make sure I was getting the same result every time. Hope this helps.
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