Headlight Switch Wiring for 3 position Switch

[ippielb]

Unsure on how to wire the headlight switch on my 2012 proclimb, I have a 3 position switch, with 3 terminals, and the high low beam has 4 wires.

Yellow/Violet
Blue
White
Black

3 position switch has the three terminals

II
O
I

How would I wire up the switch?

 

[ultrasks700]

Yellow/violet is power supply wire, Blue is for high beams, white is for low, the black is ground.
You will no longer need the black wire. the black wire is to supply ground for the little illumination lights on the factory switches so you can see then at 2am when your hammered drunk coming home from the bar.
On your 3 way switch, the middle prong will be power in(yellow/violet) the two outside prongs will be the distribution ones. Now on most switches the prongs are reverse of what you think they are. So if you want (II) to high beams, your going to attached the blue wire on the (I) prong side. white will be on the opposite. Make sense? If you have any other questions let me know I've wired up several sleds.

 

[ippielb]

Yellow/violet is power supply wire, Blue is for high beams, white is for low, the black is ground.
You will no longer need the black wire. the black wire is to supply ground for the little illumination lights on the factory switches so you can see then at 2am when your hammered drunk coming home from the bar.
On your 3 way switch, the middle prong will be power in(yellow/violet) the two outside prongs will be the distribution ones. Now on most switches the prongs are reverse of what you think they are. So if you want (II) to high beams, your going to attached the blue wire on the (I) prong side. white will be on the opposite. Make sense? If you have any other questions let me know I've wired up several sleds.

Exactly what I wanted to know, thank you. I got ahead of myself and taped up my handlebar wiring harness up to the switch wiring, do you recall what the smaller thin black wire that has texture to the wire is? I’ll probably just put it together with the ground for the illumination wire. Put them together with a butt connector and heat shrink over top.

 

[ultrasks700]

Exactly what I wanted to know, thank you. I got ahead of myself and taped up my handlebar wiring harness up to the switch wiring, do you recall what the smaller thin black wire that has texture to the wire is? I’ll probably just put it together with the ground for the illumination wire. Put them together with a butt connector and heat shrink over top.

Im not sure what you mean by "thin black wire that has texture", does it have any other colors on it? Can you post a picture?

 

[ippielb]

I show the black wire from the high beam switch that has the terminal on it. And then the thin black wire that has the texture to the wire.

 

[ippielb]

Little update, I cut the wiring loom open again, checked which wire it was and it was the reverse switch wire.

You were also right about the wiring positions being opposite, my switches were the same way.

II - low beam
O - Power
I - High Beam

II - low Temp Hand/Thumb Warmer
O - Power
I - High Temperature Hand/thumb warmer

 

[ultrasks700]

I show the black wire from the high beam switch that has the terminal on it. And then the thin black wire that has the texture to the wire.

Ive never seen a wire like that is the couple sleds ive done, that's weird! Did someone put that in?

 

[ippielb]

Previous owner must’ve spliced it in when I tore into the harness it had already been taped up and had thicker yellow gauge wiring put in places.