Anyone disabled the bloody park lights?

[Roge]

In a rush to get into work the other day, I managed to leave it in the park condition net result at knock off was a deafening silence, no dash, no nothing and a jump start required. I can envisage any need for the "Park" position on the ignition so; has anyone disabled it and how?

 

[viewdvb]

Sorry to say, the only cure is to double check before leaving it. I bet you do now!! There is no obvious way to modify the wiring as the function is enabled only by which contacts are bridged within the switch. I agree that we don't need parking lights and you could disconnect/remove the bulb(s) at front but the rear uses the normal rear light so can't be disconnected. On the other hand the rear is LED and probably doesn't draw much current so removing or disconnecting the front parking bulbs might save a flat battery if you get it wrong again. Of course, no pilot light at front is probably illegal in many jurisdictions.

 

[Don in Lodi]

Cut the blue running light wire to the two front markers so you still have turn signals. As noted, the LED tail light... the battery may survive the day.
I am curious about the wiring at the back of the switch though. Is the 'park' function run through the same wire as the 'run' function? If separate, could just take out the 'park' wire.

 

[Roge]

The position lights seem superflous as the head lights can not be switched off (here at least) so only do any good in the park condition. I wonder if there is a LED globe/bulb that will fit?

 

[Don in Lodi]

The headlamp stays on too!? Sheesh

 

[twinrider]

The position lights seem superflous as the head lights can not be switched off (here at least) so only do any good in the park condition. I wonder if there is a LED globe/bulb that will fit?

On my SA spec bike my headlight is off in park mode and only the position lights and tail light remain on. I've found this mode useful occasionally when pulled over on the roadside and as someone else mentioned, they make a nice flashlight when you're setting up camp.

I replaced mine with these T10 5w led bulbs. Nice bright white. http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B004GC936A/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

 

[Tremor38]

Re: Re: Anyone disabled the bloody park lights?

On my SA spec bike my headlight is off in park mode and only the position lights and tail light remain on. I've found this mode useful occasionally when pulled over on the roadside and as someone else mentioned, they make a nice flashlight when you're setting up camp.

I replaced mine with these T10 5w led bulbs. Nice bright white. http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B004GC936A/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

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I have T10 LEDs that I ordered from stateside for the S10, but they have about 2x the lumens. They work really well. I also have the exact same ones you posted in my car.

 

[twinrider]

Re: Re: Anyone disabled the bloody park lights?

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I have T10 LEDs that I ordered from stateside for the S10, but they have about 2x the lumens. They work really well. I also have the exact same ones you posted in my car.

The ones you ordered from stateside are brighter than the ones I installed? Got a link?

 

[Bundu]

you could fit a relay to the 'signalling system fuse' and ground and then use a normal closed contact on the relay with a buzzer in series connected to the 'taillight fuse' and to ground.

Buzzer would alert when ignition is in park mode (this would at least work on the wiring of the South African model)

 

[viewdvb]

you could fit a relay to the 'signalling system fuse' and ground and then use a normal closed contact on the relay with a buzzer in series connected to the 'taillight fuse' and to ground.

Buzzer would alert when ignition is in park mode (this would at least work on the wiring of the South African model)

This seems to be the complete answer if it works.

 

[Tremor38]

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The ones you ordered from stateside are brighter than the ones I installed? Got a link?

Link below. I was wrong...they are 4x the lumens! 3w, 200 lumens. 　

www.ddmtuning.com/Products/HP-194-T10-168-LED-Bulb

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[Topgear]

You could just make a habit of turning the bike off by using the key. Then again, I'm not a big proponent of this habit. I think using the kill switch to stop the bike ingrains the muscle memory that may be needed to turn the bike off in an emergency. Still, you could make it part of your ritual to not get off of the bike until you've turned the key off. Make it a habit, repeat, repeat, repeat...

 

[Don in Lodi]

Over seas bikes have an extra feature built into their ignition switch. Where ours just goes into a steering head lock mode, theirs has a 'park' feature.

 

[Bundu]

Over seas bikes have an extra feature built into their ignition switch. Where ours just goes into a steering head lock mode, theirs has a 'park' feature.

South African ignition

 

[Roge]

South African ignition

The P stands for PISSED OFF there is no further detent to get to it and the tail light and position lights are on, until the battery turns them off along with every other feature. >

 

[Don in Lodi]

I'm gonna go look at mine anyway. I don't use anything beyond off. I am pretty sure it's not here, 99%. Like the flash to pass.

 

[PARDAL1970]

Knowing this post has been sleeping for a long time, it time to bring it out of the coma. I was searching the forum to see if I could find an answer to a question I had: why weren't my parking lights (in P on the ignition) lighting up. So, after long consideration and having found only this thread, I turn analog and searched the old manual that comes with the bike. I found out that, for my surprise, Yamaha really listens to there customers! So, the 2014 model does NOT turn the light on while in P mode (section 3 -3 on the "book") , it only allows for the turn signals and emergency signal to be turn on if so desired! Thank you Yamaha!

I think this is useful information so you don't think (like I did) that something was wrong with the wiring on my new 2016 s10! There's NOTHING WRONG with the bike, it's just smart thinking on part of Yamaha , , not to let you be stranded somewhere just because you forgot the bike on P (mainly because it is so darn easy to do so)!

Ride safely!

 

[trainman]

on my UK bike it also switches on the aux DC socket by the clocks, don't know why for but I did manage to charge the battery via this socket with the ignition in 'park'

 

[Ramseybella]

I am a key controlled guy..

 

[groundhog]

I thought I remembered seeing there is a separate fuse for the parking light, I maybe wrong, but if I'm right I presume you can just remove the fuse ?