COOCASE WIREING

[Salty]

I have purchased a COOCASE S48 top box, and want to wire up for lights and alarm. My problem is that I am not the
best electrician and the instructions are not that clear, just says use some common sence. The case comes wired with
an electrical tail haveing three wires a red, black and yellow. The S10 has three wires coming from the tail light a blue ,
black and yellow. The yellow is extended in a loop and appears to have two resisters in line ?

The instruction is to connect red + and black - directly to the battery and the yellow to blue and green ??

Can someone shed some light .

On another note. I read somewhere that a Rumbux plate bent and broke off or cracked a oil drain plug. Has there
been a fix from RUMBUX (Deon). I am going to have a new 3/16 low carbon steel plate made that is wider and rest up against the
Rumbux frame tubes, indented for the six bolts, should add some strength and give extra clearence for the drain plugs and oil filter.
Comments.

Salty

 

[greg the pole]

Salty, best get yourself a yamaha manual, and an electrical DC meter.
That way you're not cutting stuff that you're not supposed to.
I'm guessing the case will need accessory power (powered only when the ignition is on),
a ground wire, and a brake light signal (12V when the brake lights are applied).
Not sure what you mean about alarm wire, maybe it needs a constant 12V source, in case some baddie wants to break into your top box.

I'm not aware of any resistors at the back tail light, from what I know they are straight up regular bubls, no LED's on the ST, unless you install them after the fact.
Best of luck, if you're not comfortable with the work, might want to send it to a local shop to get it done

 

[Poohbear]

I'm not aware of any resistors at the back tail light, from what I know they are straight up regular bubls, no LED's on the ST, unless you install them after the fact.

The tail lights are LED on the ST, so I guess that's what the resistors are for?

 

[greg the pole]

nice, that explains that. That's odd that they would not be built into the LED's but are external.

 

[Poohbear]

Strange thing is I don't remember seeing any resistors when I stripped it down to fit my LED indicators :-\

 

[greg the pole]

neither do I, more likely than not, they are built into the LED board, you will rarely see external resistors, unless you're installing them across your new LED'S (or go with an electronic relay type unit, specific to LED's
LED install here: thetenerist.wordpress.com

 

[Don in Lodi]

Ok, LED tail lights, yes. Tail light resistors, shouldn't have them or need them. The only place resistors come into play is when you need to fake the bike's oem flasher into thinking there is the higher load of an incandescent bulb still in the circuit when you go to LED turn signals.
The lighting of an aftermarket trunk could be LED or incandescent. The harness to our LED tail light should be able to drive either one without need anything but splices.

 

[iridemotorbikes]

I just wired in some Hyper-Lite brake lights a few weeks ago an used there (and tested to pre confirm) wiring break down of the brake light. Under the passenger seat with the rear tray removed (TORX bit) you will see the small loom for the rear brake lights.. This is easy to find cause the two for the blinkers can be gently tugged at the blinker stock to ID them- the other small loom is the brake light. I cut and peeled back the covering and there are 3 wires inside.

Black- ground
Blue- running light
Yellow- brake light

Hope this helps- I did not have any kind of resistor- 2013 US California spec bike.

 

[Salty]

Thanks all for the information. The yellow wire on the Canadian bike I recieved is looped and there are two bulbus areas sealed in black protection, this I think are resisters and yes the brake / tail light is LED. There for I think that I take the Cooocase wire red to positive , black to negative on the battery and splice the Coocase yellow into the S10 brake / tail light blue and and yellow. If I am reading this right this should give me brake / tail light as well as Coocase alarm?

Comments please

Salty

 

[SpeedyG942]

Hey Salty,
What base/ mounting plate are you using?
I've got a Cooocase for my tenere also but haven't settled on mounting option yet.

 

[Tremor38]

Ok, LED tail lights, yes. Tail light resistors, shouldn't have them or need them. The only place resistors come into play is when you need to fake the bike's oem flasher into thinking there is the higher load of an incandescent bulb still in the circuit when you go to LED turn signals.
The lighting of an aftermarket trunk could be LED or incandescent. The harness to our LED tail light should be able to drive either one without need anything but splices.

Not always true. LEDs in native form will get burnt out if hooked directly to 12VDC. Most of the LED tail lights and such made for bikes or cars already have internal resistors to step the 12v down to 3-5VDC, so that's why we're wondering about the external ones.

My guess is they are diodes. The Coocase has an internal battery that powers an alarm and remote case opening system. The diodes would let the CooCase battery charge from the bikes system, but won't allow the reverse to happen.