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As far as that goes, I don't have the means to enlarge the diagrams, but have found it very helpful to "extract" the various parts of the wiring loom from the wiring diagram. The pdf on the computer, which I can zoom in on, on the one hand, and a standard A4 print and coloured pens on the other hand to document the individual circuits. Once I've followed an individual circuit, it is pretty easy to understand. For those who think elecrickery is some kind of magic, it's not. I'm neither an electrician nor an electronics engineer. I studied music theory, but I ended up being a sound engineer. Doing that for a living does makes one very good at understanding what is connected to where, but it is not hard. Just remeber that "more Volts" will always try to find the path to "less Volts". That is all there is to it, really.

If you really do that, I'd be happy to help by adding German to the comparison. It wouldn't be the first time that I have confirmed something by comparing the translations.

Commenting on the costumes could easily be percieved as being a bit tacky, couldn't it? So I wont...

Yes. The correct "name" for that letter is zed.

I thought so. I'm one of the Admins on a German forum, and we can't see personal messages there either. I doubt that one could see them in the database either, actually.

Not on the wiring diagram I'm looking at. Neutral light gets fed from pin #3 on the ignition switch.

For the sake of completeness: A further inspection of the wiring diagram has revealed that, parallel to the fuel level sensor, there are also connections to The oil pressure warning light, and through that to the oil pressure switch The generator warning light, and through that to the regulator. The tachometer. Not the backlight, a + input that must have something to do with the internal works. I don't expect that the oil pressure warning light was a "leak". The oil pressure switch is, as far as I know, exactly that: a switch that is on or off. I don't however know what goes on in the regulator or the tachometer, so maybe there is a path to earth in one or both of them that is not a fault as such. Whatever, the point is there are enough explanations for how the 12 V on the wrongly connected green wire were finding a path to earth sufficient to activate the relay for the lights without having to worry that there might be an actual fault in the wiring somewhere.

After a night's sleep and a look at the wiring diagramm, that actually makes sense. With the high / low beam switch on low, the coil in the high beam relay was getting 12 V through the incorrectly connected green wire, and finding it's earth through the high beam indicator lamp, thereby closing the relay and allowing high beam to light up. Pressing the "flash to pass" closed the connection to put 12V on the other end of the coil in the relay. 12 V at both ends = no potential difference across the coil, so the relay opened, extinguishing the light.

So they'd be good mates of yours, I suppose... Brilliant typification.

And another thing: it is currently, admittedly in the middle of the night, about -5°C here, and the weather forecast is promising 0°C maximum daytime and down to -9°C minimum during the night for the next 4 or 5 days. So stop your whingeing, and get on your bike.

That's interesting. Certainly not a problem that needs sorting because it was happening with the incorrect wiring, but interesting. Food for thought for the next few days, at least. Hmmm....

Yeah, no worries mate. The main thing is, the obvious problems are sorted, and you can get rego on it. There is no doubt some more cleaning up to do, but getting it on the road is the first priority, and it looks like you're well on the way to that.

Yeah, I picked that up somewhere, and was very surprised. That has been their marketing pitch for so long, and it works well. And they gave it up. I can't help thinking that a German bookkeeper (Audi = Volkswagen) might have had too much to say in the decision.

Indeed it is. And this is so true: I think I got it, though, with the "flat in flatulence". "BMW: the "fff" in Furz seit 102 Jahren." Deepl.com gives this back: "BMW: the ‘fff’ in fart for 102 years." Works for me.

That's an important point. The relays don't have much clearance to the seat base. I did some looking a while back, and discovered that a lot of the available relays on the market might be a couple of millimetres too high for the available space.

Well, if you do insist on living in Gippsland.

I feel I should pull those two posts up again. If what @Weegie meant with "high beam bulb" was the high beam indicator in the dashboard, the answer is of course "Yes, it could". As I read that post, I still had the original problem as being with the low beam in my mind, as described in the opening post. After Tennigtragic swapped the green wires on the relays and the problem moved to the high beam, the high beam indicato light became part of the circuit and provided, of course, a path to earth.

I just put that through deepL.com, just for fun to see what comes out. This was translated as this and putting that back through to English, it gave me this Funnier in German, but still good in English, I reckon.

Another penny dropped a couple of hours ago, probably the last one on this topic. Initially, it was the low beam playing funny buggers, then @Tennitragic swapped the green wires on the relays. After that, it was the high beam with the peculiar behavior. As long as it was the low beam playing up, it was likely the fuel sensor providing the path back to the battery minus. In the high beam part of the wiring loom, between the high/low switch and the headlight, or the way the wiring is now the new relays, there is also a connection to earth through the high beam indicator on the dashboard. With the green wires on the relays swapped so that the high beam was playing up, both the fuel sensor and the high beam indicator provide a potential path to "earth". I'm now content to believe that there is no fault as such in the wiring, but merely "weak spots" that only showed up because of the incorrect connection of that one green wire to plus instead of minus.

Brilliant. Now I just have to figure out how to translate that appropriately for the German forum.

Somehow, she looks sulky and bored to tears.

Not until they sort out the saggy tits.

I seriously doubt that it would sell much in Australia either, but here in Germany it might. Not heaps, but there might be a market. I reckon it would be serious competition for the Royal Enfield 350, and is quite possibly a better bike into the bargain. This Enfield: https://www.royalenfield.com/de/de/motorcycles/classic-350/

Well done, that man. Carry on!

The name "Diavel" seems to play on "diavolo", devil. No doubt in the sense of "as ugly as the..."