2017 SSR Motorsports Lazer 5 Sport & A Story
Jan 10, 2022 23:40:17 GMT -5
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Post by 90GTVert on Jan 10, 2022 23:40:17 GMT -5
I've been looking at connectors for a harness. Thinking about all Furukawa sealed connectors. After working with all sealed weather pack and metri-pack connectors for T2, I think they're a quality upgrade vs the Sumitomo/Hitachi connectors that are standard on most Chinese scoots.
Looks like about $100-110 to get the connectors I'd need for the harness, plus metri-pack sealed fuse holders and some spare terminals because stuff happens when you're doing that many connections. Don't really want to spend that much, so I priced out the Sumitomo/Hitachi standard connectors, still with good metri-pack fuse holders and the 9 pin Furukawas to match the controls, but no spares because I have some stuff around for the unsealed ones. That would be $50-55, so right on half.
The unsealed stuff works OK in general. I've just been paranoid since a beach trip on T2 where I got caught in heavy rain and the scoot refused to run right till it dried out. Not sure if the new harness with sealed connectors actually fixed whatever that was or if it would do the same thing. Haven't been totally drenched since, but it has worked fine after spraying it with the hose for washing.
The other thing that the higher quality connectors seem to do is more positively lock together. Less risk of anything coming unplugged.
With that and good wire, it's probably a $200 wire harness or near enough. I look on amazon and see that for $35 you can get a generic wiring harness, hbar controls, reg/rec, CDI, coil, plug, stator, ign switch and starter relay. Then I'm like, WTH am I doing thinking about spending $200 on wires and connectors? This isn't T2. I probably won't ride it that much and it's not likely to replace T2 as my favorite... but I'm not good at putting away my desires to do things how I'd like to see them done with stuff like this. It also feels a lot better to spend a bunch of time on something you're pleased with when it's done.
Looks like about $100-110 to get the connectors I'd need for the harness, plus metri-pack sealed fuse holders and some spare terminals because stuff happens when you're doing that many connections. Don't really want to spend that much, so I priced out the Sumitomo/Hitachi standard connectors, still with good metri-pack fuse holders and the 9 pin Furukawas to match the controls, but no spares because I have some stuff around for the unsealed ones. That would be $50-55, so right on half.
The unsealed stuff works OK in general. I've just been paranoid since a beach trip on T2 where I got caught in heavy rain and the scoot refused to run right till it dried out. Not sure if the new harness with sealed connectors actually fixed whatever that was or if it would do the same thing. Haven't been totally drenched since, but it has worked fine after spraying it with the hose for washing.
The other thing that the higher quality connectors seem to do is more positively lock together. Less risk of anything coming unplugged.
With that and good wire, it's probably a $200 wire harness or near enough. I look on amazon and see that for $35 you can get a generic wiring harness, hbar controls, reg/rec, CDI, coil, plug, stator, ign switch and starter relay. Then I'm like, WTH am I doing thinking about spending $200 on wires and connectors? This isn't T2. I probably won't ride it that much and it's not likely to replace T2 as my favorite... but I'm not good at putting away my desires to do things how I'd like to see them done with stuff like this. It also feels a lot better to spend a bunch of time on something you're pleased with when it's done.
