Help with Hookup

**Mstaples** · 12-26-2008, 06:32 PM

Hi guys, I bought a Beltronics detector and the rest of the stuff to mount on my motorcycle. Having some trouble, and I think it is in the SmartPlug. Anybody have trouble with SmartPlugs? Here's the problem:

06 Honda Sabre. Cracked open headlight. Found the "Always-On" hotwire to the blinkers that has a constant 12v when the key is on. Checked it with a voltmeter. Everything OK. As instructed, tied the red/blk SmartPlug wire into that constant 12v blinker wire. Ground the other SmartPlug wire on a chassie bolt. Turned the key on. All lights on the bike light up. There should be 12v going into the SmartPlug.

Pluged the phone-jack style plug into the Beltronics detector. nothing. Hit all the buttons on the detector. Nothing. Hit the button on the SmartPlug a few times. Nothing. jiggled all the wires. Nothing. I have no way of verifying that there is nothing comming out of the plug attaching to the detector, but that seems like a good conclusions.

Took the detector over to my car and plugged it into the cigarett lighter. Works just fine.

Any ideas???

**dpatel01** · 12-26-2008, 06:48 PM

Checked fuse? Use the voltmeter to test for 12V at various points in the circuit, this should help find the location of the problem.

**Mstaples** · 12-26-2008, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by dpatel01

Checked fuse? Use the voltmeter to test for 12V at various points in the circuit, this should help find the location of the problem.

Fuses are all OK. The wire I am tapping into has 12v on it. Tested it with the volt meter. I eyeyballed the fuse for the SmartPlug and it Looked OK. I didn't check it with the Ohm meter. I'll check it tomarrow to make sure, but it look good.

**dpatel01** · 12-26-2008, 07:53 PM

Could be a bad connection with the RJ11 plug that goes into the detector. Use the voltmeter and test for 12V across the center pair of pins on the RJ11.

**focalcivic** · 12-26-2008, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mstaples

Hi guys, I bought a Beltronics detector and the rest of the stuff to mount on my motorcycle. Having some trouble, and I think it is in the SmartPlug. Anybody have trouble with SmartPlugs? Here's the problem:

06 Honda Sabre. Cracked open headlight. Found the "Always-On" hotwire to the blinkers that has a constant 12v when the key is on. Checked it with a voltmeter. Everything OK. As instructed, tied the red/blk SmartPlug wire into that constant 12v blinker wire. Ground the other SmartPlug wire on a chassie bolt. Turned the key on. All lights on the bike light up. There should be 12v going into the SmartPlug.

Pluged the phone-jack style plug into the Beltronics detector. nothing. Hit all the buttons on the detector. Nothing. Hit the button on the SmartPlug a few times. Nothing. jiggled all the wires. Nothing. I have no way of verifying that there is nothing comming out of the plug attaching to the detector, but that seems like a good conclusions.

Took the detector over to my car and plugged it into the cigarett lighter. Works just fine.

Any ideas???

Make sure you are pushing and holding the power button on the detector for a few seconds.

Also, move the ground just to make sure that is not the problem.

**ELVATO** · 12-26-2008, 08:00 PM

Touch the red lead of the voltmeter to red pin in the telephone plug. Touch the black to ground. I think it's the red one that carries the power. Plug it in to the car where it works, and touch the red lead to the various pins, and see which ones have power. It should be the same with the bike.

**Mstaples** · 12-26-2008, 08:33 PM

Thanks guys. It helps to know which pins on the connector are supposed to be hot. Think of checking on the good one used with the car. I'm really hoping I don't have to return this thing. Spend a lot of time mounting it.

**focalcivic** · 12-26-2008, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Mstaples

Thanks guys. It helps to know which pins on the connector are supposed to be hot. Think of checking on the good one used with the car. I'm really hoping I don't have to return this thing. Spend a lot of time mounting it.

I think you did this, but the easiest way to make sure it is working is to bring it to a car and use the cig lighter plug and test it that way.

**Mstaples** · 12-26-2008, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by focalcivic

I think you did this, but the easiest way to make sure it is working is to bring it to a car and use the cig lighter plug and test it that way.

Well... I know the detector works because I did just that. My suspicion is that the switch between the power source and the detector is bad... or there is a break in the wire, or (as per a suggestion) maybe the fuse is bad, even though it looks good (I've had that happen). So I'll check the fuse tomarrow because that's the easiest thing to test. If it's OK, then I'll try to check the continuity of the entire line by probing the pins on the phone-style connector. If I can verify a break in the line somewhere, then they "SmartPlug" is faulty -- somewhere. Don't care where very much (as long as it isn't the fuse). I'll break it down and return it.