Bought a momentary switch with an LED for my starter switch as I'm relocating it. The switch has 5 terminals: + (for the LED), -, NC, NO, and C. I originally wired it so the LED stayed on but like the idea of the LED activating when the bike's in neutral instead. Guessing I can use the neutral wire to the speedo but am not sure which terminal on the switch to wire to.

Any ideas?

I do. So if the neutral light activates when the transmission goes into neutral  would I then connect the LED's ground to the neutral?

Yeah, wire's blue. I'm installing the switch in the speedo where the neutral was so I'll just remove the light's wiring and re-use it.

Thanks!

You have to jumper them together...

You gotta lie to the bike. You've got to make the bike Think the kickstand is up, all the time. Now, if it's down But the bike is in neutral, it doesn't care, but when it's in gear, and the stand is down, it's just gonna shut off.
Suggest you get a cheap multimeter, you'll need to check things and a classy one, well, why spend money on something you don't really know how to use and could wreck by hooking it up wrong?
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laurenthegold wrote on 10/12/15 at 10:03:40:


The wiring system needs to have a "completed circuit" for the electricity to pass through and tell the bike that things are "OK".  That either needs to be by having the switch in the "closed" position by pulling in the clutch or pulling up the kickstand......or by removing the wire connections from the switch and connecting the wires together.

The exception to this is the neutral light - the blue wire goes to the switch which grounds the circuit when the bike is in neutral.

95 LS650

So I thought "cleaning up" the wiring harness would be easy-ish. Probably is but I've done something horribly wrong and am blowing fuses as soon as the battery is connected (without key in ignition even).

To start:
I replaced the start switch with a LED momentary switch. I connected the orange/white wire that ran to the ignition coil, ignitor, and engine stop switch to the "common" and the yellow/green wire from the clutch lever to the "normally open". I then connected the black/blue wire from the side stand diode (ran to the neutral indicator) to "-" and the orange wire from the neutral indicator to the "+". Don't know if that is working yet b/c the fuse keeps blowing  

I also changed the start/stop switch to a lighted rocker switch with the orange/white wire connected to the 1, the orange/black wire connected to the 2, and a ground on the 3.

I also replaced the original turn signal switch housing with a smaller housing but am 85% sure I have that wired up correctly...

I grounded everything else exactly as shown in the wiring diagram...

I'm an electrical noob and shouldn't have messed with the harness at all but you can't tell me nothing  

If anyone has an advice I would be greatly appreciative!

I had the battery leads reversed  

I'm using the battery tender clamps connected to a pig-tail adapter and at the connection point the wires reversed but I didn't realize it.

Fixed it and all is well! Well, except my headlight's not on but that shouldn't be difficult to track down.