I shorted my Scooter - what Next (Chinese brand)

[maillme]

Hi All,

I was taking off my starter relay to pic it and buy replacement. And I managed to short it (I thought my battery was dead, apparently not!).

Anyhow, I noticed within about a second - but the electrics to the negative terminal of my battery were smoking. I took it all apart, and it looks like there is one wire that took it all and is damaged. 

Now, it goes without saying I guess, but, i'll say it any way - I'm an amateur! So, I need some help / advice in what to do now.

on the face of it, it looks like I need to replace a cable - which is (oddly), crimped to the -the battery terminal, but at the other end - it is soldered of sorts, to two other wires. One I think goes to starter (relay) perhaps and the other to the starter button.

Can anyone give me some advice on what I need to do / some checks? 

I stripped a lot of the tape holding all electrics together, to assess what was damaged, and it looks like the one cable I mentioned. 

I look forward to a reply - and please spare me the lecture. Lesson learned!

many thanks,
Neil 

[gsx600racer]

There are a few ways you can fix this:

1: Cut out the bad sections and replace with new wires and crimp connectors. Make sure you use the same gauge wire.

2: Wrap the exposed wires with a few layer of electrical tape.

3: Cut one side of where the wires is exposed and slide some heat shrink tubing over the bad sections and re-solder wire together and shrink tubing.

4: Get a new harness.

[maillme]

thank you GSX. I was thinking replace the wire. It looks like a short piece.

One thing though, the solder looks to be more heavy duty than I have myself. So maybe a sort of crimp connector or junction of sorts, then wrap in tape (which the soldered piece was before I unravelled it).

thanks again,
neil

[maillme]

Also, would you happen to know what gauge of wire this is . is likely to be?
thanks,
neil

[ozo]

May 31, 2017 8:16:36 GMT -5 maillme said:

Also, would you happen to know what gauge of wire this is . is likely to be?
thanks,
neil

Take a sample piece to the hardware store and compare it to the wire there.