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Title: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: DanHam on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 04:29 AM
I wonder because I purchased a gear indicator on Ebay, but it seems to be for later model, -04 and on.
It has only one big connector, i suppose the earlier one is has the expensive one with two connectors.
Please help me sort this out...  :frustrated:
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: Hooli on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 06:20 AM
Not sure what you mean really but all models have the same 'dealer mode' plug. However K5 onwards also has a 12v supply and earth to the same multiplug that the early bikes don't.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: Tony Nitrous on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 06:26 AM
I thought all 14's a plug to bring up fault codes ?
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: BbigMmac on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 02:59 PM
I ride a K2 and ahs it also. Did need a model specific gear indicator for mine.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: Hooli on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 05:32 PM
Quote from: Tony Nitrous on Wednesday, 10 August  2022, 06:26 AM
I thought all 14's a plug to bring up fault codes ?

They do & it's the same plug. But K5 onwards also has a power & earth to the same connector.

My assumption would be the earlier bikes need a different gear indicator as they'd get their power from somewhere else. Although personally I'd just tap into the ignition feed out the fusebox (orange wire on early ones, dunno if it changed) rather than spend extra.

I think the change was to provide power to an optional alarm fitment?

TBH, I don't see the need for a gear indicator. After all Suzuki did fit a rev counter that tells you the same thing.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: grog on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 06:18 PM
Worm Can gets bigger. Indicator slides in there with tyres, brakes, oil, etc etc. I like mine.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: froudy on Thursday, 11 August 2022, 04:58 AM
The GI-Pro with two connectors fits as shown in the photo. Plug n play :onya:

I pulled mine off after about a year when it started causing FI fault codes.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: VladTepes on Thursday, 11 August 2022, 11:55 AM
Ah there's a plug already plugged into the 'FI indicator' plug on my bike. I wondered what it was so perhaps its the GiPro gear indicator plug?
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: Hooli on Thursday, 11 August 2022, 06:49 PM
Unplug it & see what stops working.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: grog on Thursday, 11 August 2022, 07:10 PM
Never really thought about my gear indicator, Healtech. Been fitted 8 yrs, works perfectly. Fairly sure its in between connecters as Froudy said, nothing plugged into diagnostic plug. Just checked price, sure has gone up. I had a read, similar can be made cheaply, really not difficult. I paid , results good.  :)
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: DanHam on Friday, 12 August 2022, 07:57 PM
OK. Then this will not fit my K2 from 2002? There are one pic of my SEPP gear indicator with two connectors and one red cable. Instructions say that I use only one of them (?) I found one similar connector, the one with a pink cable, but it's already used, that's second pic.
And there is a third pic of my diagnose connector, with EIGHT cables. Nothing seems to fit.
Anyone had the same problem?
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: DanHam on Friday, 12 August 2022, 08:35 PM
 :boogie: :notworthy: I connected it between the plugs with the pink cable and then the red cable to + of course. And then voila it counted up to six and back to 0. The installation instructions were really lousy, but I bought it cheap on Ebay, perhaps thats why? Some apprentice.without mechanical or electrical knowledge wrote it. :doh: this is how it's connected. Remains some cable routing and location of display.. Anyone knows a good cable to put the red cable for ingnition on?
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: grog on Sunday, 14 August 2022, 05:57 PM
Mate, horn positive. Just get a piggy back push on connecter.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: froudy on Sunday, 14 August 2022, 07:11 PM
Connected exactly as I showed in my photo above.

I can't remember which igninition switched +ve I used now as it was many moons ago and I no longer have the bike. From memory it was somewhere close to the battery.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: Hooli on Sunday, 14 August 2022, 09:34 PM
Quote from: froudy on Sunday, 14 August  2022, 07:11 PM
Connected exactly as I showed in my photo above.

I can't remember which igninition switched +ve I used now as it was many moons ago and I no longer have the bike. From memory it was somewhere close to the battery.

Orange wire under the fusebox maybe? that's the one I always use.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: SpongeBob on Sunday, 14 August 2022, 10:38 PM
I've used the +ve (Orange/Blue wire) of the connector: it's switched, has it's own fuse, can easily be connected/disconnected... and the fan never kicks-in anyway:-) Works like charm for years.
Title: Re: Which year was the diagnos connector introduced? (fx. for gear indicator)
Post by: froudy on Wednesday, 17 August 2022, 05:48 PM
Quote from: Hooli on Sunday, 14 August  2022, 09:34 PM


Orange wire under the fusebox maybe? that's the one I always use.

@Hooli
Yes I remember now..It was that one I hooked into :onya: