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Eastern Beaver H4 headlight relay issue

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#1 ·
I recently installed an Eastern Beaver H4 relay kit and a PC8 fusebox..Everything worked perfectly..2nd time out the headlights would not come on-either low or high beams..I turned the bike off, then on again, switched from low beam to high beam..Then, when I turned the bike back on..lo and behold the headlights worked.. This happened twice today. The second time it happened I simply started riding with the headlights off-as I was 100 miles from home I had no other choice..after a minute or so, the headlights came on..

So, what is it?... Sticking relay?.. Faulty installation?.. My bad karma?..or is it simply a case of parking my Vstrom too close to my Vincent and the gods of british electrics have infected the Suzuki.. ..
 
#2 ·
The usual cause of such symptoms is a loose connection.
 
#4 ·
I had an EB H4 harness on my FJR for about 9 months but removed it. Lights started flickering one morning and then wouldn't come on at all a few days later. I pulled the relays and found a lot of corrosion and cleaned them out the best that I could.

I didn't have any problems for a couple of months but then the high beams quit working one night on a 3 day trip to Key West. At the next stop I disconnected the EB harness and plugged the factory harness back in and the problems were solved. When I got home I checked the relays and they were corroded again, and I had used dielectric grease the first cleaning.

I don't think the EB relay plugs are weather proof enough and are causing corrosion and reliability problems. I also had the EB relays stuffed up in the fairing out of any weather. I thought about getting new relays, shrink wrapping them and putting the EB harness back on but I'm a little gun shy about it right now.
 
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