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My son and I are attempting to install the on board air compressor today for the suspension adjustment from EC. The air line install went pretty well. After removing the panel with the light attached to it on the rear of the trailer, we found what we were looking for. If the carpet is pulled back a little on the left side, just below the left tail light, therre is a wire chase that exits on the bottom of the trailer, right where you need to splice the air line. You feed your new plastic air line through that chase. That was all pretty straight forward, got the air line in and spliced and it is holding pressure just fine.
Now we are attempting to wire everything up and are a little confused. The instructions say go from the red wire on the compressor to the yellow wire on the receiver - got that done ok. It says go from the black wire without a terminal on the compressor to the white on the receiver - again, got that done OK. Next it says to connect the black wire with the ring terminal to ground. That is my first sticking point. On a car, I'd just go to any bolt that connects to the frame. On a fiberglass trailer, no frame, etc... Further down the instructions give this tip: (if your trailer uses a 6 wire system, transfer the power for the interior light over to the tail lights. This gives you a dedicatd power line for the air compressor. You MUST rewire this wire on the bike directly to the battery + terminal with a 15 amp fuse). One of the wires from the light is black and one is white. Do we assume that the black wire is a ground?
The next part of the instructions say this: (Connect the wires from the remote receiver as follows: black - ground, red - 12 volts +) Do I tie the two grounds together (one from the compressor and one from the remote receiver) and hook those to the above mentioned black wire that the light was hooked to? Also, do we assume the white wire that went to the light is the 12 volt + that we need?
Ok, thank you so far. If the above is correct, I would like to ask this question: When it says that "you MUST rewire this wire on the bike directly to the battery + terminal with a 15 amp fuse" does that mean I have to tear apart my bike and seperate out the wire that originally supplied the light circut and route it to the battery seperately? That seems like I am going to have to tear the fender off the rear of my bike, get into the wiring harness there and spend a bunch of time running a new line. Whew! :twisted: Is it going to be as hard and time consuming as I think it is to tear the bike apart and do this?
I appreciate any help you can give me on this. :bow:
Bill in the U.P.
My son and I are attempting to install the on board air compressor today for the suspension adjustment from EC. The air line install went pretty well. After removing the panel with the light attached to it on the rear of the trailer, we found what we were looking for. If the carpet is pulled back a little on the left side, just below the left tail light, therre is a wire chase that exits on the bottom of the trailer, right where you need to splice the air line. You feed your new plastic air line through that chase. That was all pretty straight forward, got the air line in and spliced and it is holding pressure just fine.
Now we are attempting to wire everything up and are a little confused. The instructions say go from the red wire on the compressor to the yellow wire on the receiver - got that done ok. It says go from the black wire without a terminal on the compressor to the white on the receiver - again, got that done OK. Next it says to connect the black wire with the ring terminal to ground. That is my first sticking point. On a car, I'd just go to any bolt that connects to the frame. On a fiberglass trailer, no frame, etc... Further down the instructions give this tip: (if your trailer uses a 6 wire system, transfer the power for the interior light over to the tail lights. This gives you a dedicatd power line for the air compressor. You MUST rewire this wire on the bike directly to the battery + terminal with a 15 amp fuse). One of the wires from the light is black and one is white. Do we assume that the black wire is a ground?
The next part of the instructions say this: (Connect the wires from the remote receiver as follows: black - ground, red - 12 volts +) Do I tie the two grounds together (one from the compressor and one from the remote receiver) and hook those to the above mentioned black wire that the light was hooked to? Also, do we assume the white wire that went to the light is the 12 volt + that we need?
Ok, thank you so far. If the above is correct, I would like to ask this question: When it says that "you MUST rewire this wire on the bike directly to the battery + terminal with a 15 amp fuse" does that mean I have to tear apart my bike and seperate out the wire that originally supplied the light circut and route it to the battery seperately? That seems like I am going to have to tear the fender off the rear of my bike, get into the wiring harness there and spend a bunch of time running a new line. Whew! :twisted: Is it going to be as hard and time consuming as I think it is to tear the bike apart and do this?
I appreciate any help you can give me on this. :bow:
Bill in the U.P.