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02 Rupp Scrambler Trail 70 clone - 12v or 6v? Tips on making lights work?
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<blockquote data-quote="Joe_G" data-source="post: 157677" data-attributes="member: 10360"><p>I was able to do a little work on the bike today. I installed a 6v battery, it was cheap locally and it fit the battery box. There's no way a 12 volt battery would fit that box. </p><p></p><p>Turns out the bike was made in 2002 by Lifan, seems that is a common clone manufacturer of that time.</p><p></p><p>With the battery, the horn sounds better than it did but it's much quieter. The key switch, which has a busted key broken off in it, does operate with a screwdriver and when the key is off, the horn won't work. When the key is on, horn works. </p><p></p><p>Motor starts and runs with key on or off. The kill switch does work and did even without a battery.</p><p></p><p>I took apart the right control, and specifically the headlight on/off/parking switch and the bb that is the "detent" for the switch was out of place. I reseated the two contacts and cleaned them but the lights still do not work. With the engine running, I was getting less than 1 volt of DC on the yellow wires, nothing on the other wires. I forgot to check and see if I was getting AC voltage, normally in my experience there is no AC voltage except coming from the stator to the rectifier, not in the switches so I forgot to check. I got the headlight switch working better, not sure if it's getting good contact but there was no voltage to it to speak of so I need to find out why there's no voltage.</p><p></p><p>Do these bikes have AC voltage in the headlight switch? I understand the bike must be running for the headlight to work, mine doesn't running or not. No lights work at all.</p><p></p><p>I have a speedometer cable coming this week (mine is MIA) so I figured I'd take apart the headlight bucket when I install that and check out the wiring there and see if the bulbs are good. I see Beatrice cycles sells controls for the clone bikes pretty cheap, I may buy that if I can't get it figured out as my headlight switch is brittle and sketchy. I also see WEbllc on eBay sells a complete wiring kit with headlight controls, speedometer, turn signals, everything for $180 shipped, hate to spend all that money but seems it might be worth it if I can't get everything working. </p><p></p><p>Any advice on the web llc kit or any other advice? it's much appreciated. Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe_G, post: 157677, member: 10360"] I was able to do a little work on the bike today. I installed a 6v battery, it was cheap locally and it fit the battery box. There's no way a 12 volt battery would fit that box. Turns out the bike was made in 2002 by Lifan, seems that is a common clone manufacturer of that time. With the battery, the horn sounds better than it did but it's much quieter. The key switch, which has a busted key broken off in it, does operate with a screwdriver and when the key is off, the horn won't work. When the key is on, horn works. Motor starts and runs with key on or off. The kill switch does work and did even without a battery. I took apart the right control, and specifically the headlight on/off/parking switch and the bb that is the "detent" for the switch was out of place. I reseated the two contacts and cleaned them but the lights still do not work. With the engine running, I was getting less than 1 volt of DC on the yellow wires, nothing on the other wires. I forgot to check and see if I was getting AC voltage, normally in my experience there is no AC voltage except coming from the stator to the rectifier, not in the switches so I forgot to check. I got the headlight switch working better, not sure if it's getting good contact but there was no voltage to it to speak of so I need to find out why there's no voltage. Do these bikes have AC voltage in the headlight switch? I understand the bike must be running for the headlight to work, mine doesn't running or not. No lights work at all. I have a speedometer cable coming this week (mine is MIA) so I figured I'd take apart the headlight bucket when I install that and check out the wiring there and see if the bulbs are good. I see Beatrice cycles sells controls for the clone bikes pretty cheap, I may buy that if I can't get it figured out as my headlight switch is brittle and sketchy. I also see WEbllc on eBay sells a complete wiring kit with headlight controls, speedometer, turn signals, everything for $180 shipped, hate to spend all that money but seems it might be worth it if I can't get everything working. Any advice on the web llc kit or any other advice? it's much appreciated. Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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