This is the perfect example of why it is a good idea to put the model and year of your bike in your signature.

What year and model is your bike?

 

99 92c

 

Sorry guys it's a 2008 cory ness jackpot

 

Have checked ALL your fuses???

 

You upgraded to the 10???

Check ALL wires from the taillight forward. Did you cross the wires by any chance?

Also are your turn signals working?

 

If you've checked everything here are the directions per KevinX from another site.

1- Remove the seat, Side Covers,

2- Disconnect the Positive Lead on the Battery

3- Remove the Fender-Remove the 4 bolts holding the Fender, place a towel where the saddle was, under the leading edges or lips on the fender.- Spread the fender to clear the fender bolt mounts and tilt it forward from the rear ( No need to remove the Plastic forward mudguard).-Tilt the fender forward but not too far. Use something soft to keep it up to access the taillight (I used an old pillow folded and wrapped in a towel) Be sure that the towel you placed in the front is protecting the leading edges of your fender.

4- Remove the taillight- 1st remove the taillight guard by removing the outer 10 mm bolts, reach up to the top of the guard and work out the two rubber rivets. Unplug the taillight harness. Fold the guard forward and remove the two 10mm bolts on the bottom of the taillight. Reach up again and remove the one 10mm bolt on the side of the taillight with a wrench (Socket wont fit). There is a spring bracket (Two rubber rivets mounted into this) at the top of the light, slightly push it out away from the fender while sliding the taillight down and back. Work it for a minute and the taillight will slide out.

5- Connect 12V Brake power- The brake with (Just above the Oil Filter) is connected with two wires One is Pink/White. This wire sends 12v power to the brake lights regardless if you push the front or rear brakes. It also runs up to the ACM. Splice into this wire and run a wire up through to under the saddle. Make a removable plug connection here then run another wire along the harness to the back where the taillight is. (You can also splice into the ACM at the Pink/white wire. Just be sure your not connecting to red/white or the purple/white)

6- Connect your New Taillight- Cut the harness off of the new Taillight and connect the following wires using a removable connection (You may need to unplug them later) Connect the taillight's RED wire to the wire that was connected to the Pink/White wire you ran from the back. Run a splice on the Purple wire and ad a connection to the taillight. (Feeds the license plate light). This will provide running lights for the taillight. Connect the NEW taillight's BLUE wire to the Purple wire. Remove one of the licence plate bolts an connect a wire to it that will serve as a ground. Connect the taillight's BLACK wire to the new ground that is connected to the license plate bolt. (I recommend all connections be made with good waterproof plugs. I used heat shrink connections and filled them with dialectic grease before plugging them in.)

7- Seal off the old harness- I cut the old plug off of my old taillight since it was blown, taped it up, filled the inside with dielectric grease and plugged it back in.

8-Re assemble the fender- Run Zip ties along the new wire and cable to keep the wire from getting caught in the tire. Put the top 10 mm bolt into the fender and the new taillight, Put the bottom two taillight bolts in and tighten, Put the guard in place, insert the two rubber rivets and tighten the two 10mm bolts into the fender. (Be sure there are no loose wires extruding out past the guard, by using zip ties to secure them) , remove the Pillow and drop the fender into place. Place the fender back onto the mount Realign it with the tire and put the 4 fender bolts back in place. ( Now you can test the connection since the ground was to the license plate bolt nothing will work till its bolted to metal.

9- Test the light- Hook the positive lead to the battery up, turn the power on and test your light. If there is an issue all you have to do is remove the 4 bolts to check it out. If everything is good reassemble your bike.
This taillight cost $155, and $168 after tax. I also connected a Custom Dynamics Night Rider to under the trunk. (The Cause of all my problems.Connecting it to a 12v source then to my taillight burned the 9v LED out) The running light burned out but the flashing Brake light still works so I kept it in place by connecting the red lead to the Pink/White wire and the Black to ground.

 

So is this the way you change the three volt to 12 volt without the converter?

 

I believe step 5 is addressing the 12v connector.

 

Thanks dimond ill give it a shot.

 

Be sure to check your fuses as Kevin stated. You'd be surprised how often its something that simple.thumb up

 

The method you show is for doing it without a converter

 

What needs to be added to it? This way it will be here for anyone else.

 

Nothing needs to be added. My method is simple wire splicing with no converter. Piece of cake

 

Sounds like all is good at adapter......

When you got your 12 volt converter/adapter....did you get the 2 prong to 3 prong adapter? if so...did you hook up the purple pigtail to anything?
It is supposed to tap into existing License Plate lite wire....the colored one(possibly purple aswell....not a black one).
That is were your 12 volts is supplied for your tail light if using the 12 volt adapter. The brake light is supplied by the actual 12 volt adapter.

 

Steven,

There is a small 2 prong to 3 prong adapter that came with your voltage converter set.... has a purple lead coming out of it with a tap. What did you connect this purple wire to? That purple grabs power for your running light. I think the directions call for you to connect that purple to the license plate light power cable....

(Cables A and E are grounds...)

The colorful set of instructions mentioned above is the procedure for rewiring the bike to accept the updated brake light. This is not the route you took by purchasing the converter. The converter does all that for you.

 

Okay, I'm totally confused. I'm trying to do this conversion WITHOUTH the adapter. I.e. Kevinx's instructions.

I unplug my old 2-prong tailight. There's a red wire and a Black/white wire.

I connect the red wire on the harness to the white/pink wire on the rear brake switch?

The NEW taillight has 3 wires: purple, white, black. What connects what to what? Black to ground, that is simple, but where does the purple wire and white wire on the new taillight go?

I notice on the bike, there's a purple wire not connected to anything.

 

Note, my license plate got relocated, so that's why I have a purple and black wire female bullets going nowhere under the fender).

Okay, I figured it out:

purple on NEW taillight to purple female plug on bike harness (which, according to wiring diagram, goes to the license plate).

black on NEW taillight goes on ground somewhere (Again, I'll use the black wire female plug on the bike harness unused from the relocated license plate)

white on NEW tailliight goes to the white/pink wire (that's on the brake switch near the oil filter. I just put a double spade terminal to "tap" into the white/pink wire)

The old red/white and black/white wire plug othat used to go into the old taillight on the bike harness is NOT used.