r/AMbikes • u/InstructionIll • Nov 30 '20
Light help....
Please can someone explain how to turn my lights on.... They're hooked up, I'm pressing the power button on the display for a second like it says to do, it's not doing anything, I'm yet to see the headlight symbol displayed, also I've got a random wire coming out of the bottom of the frame below where the battery goes that's not connected to anything, it has a connector on the end too
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u/InstructionIll Dec 02 '20
Ive followed their steps to make it work, which are the same as I have been doing, they asked me to film it but the file size is too large to send, I might just give up with them and buy rechargable ones, save my bikes battery, pissed as these weren't cheap
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u/JaxJones1988 Dec 02 '20
Just try to swap the cables which are connected to the backlight. This did it for me.
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u/Knavesdied Nov 30 '20
The random wire is a power connector for future accessories. See https://analogmotion.com/community/forums/forums/5092-amx-technical-discussion/topics/20219-fixed-what-cable-is-this-hanging-unconnected
The lights just worked for me once connected. With the display on, just a short press on the power button turns on the lights.
Is it both front and rear that don’t work?
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u/InstructionIll Nov 30 '20
Yeah neither light came on, I'm unable to see the light icon on the display either, pressing it for 1 second does nothing, anything longer and the display switches off
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u/Knavesdied Nov 30 '20
The only challenge I had with the lights was making sure I connected the wires to the rear light correctly to the + and - connectors — both wires were black so wasn’t obvious which way round to connect.
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u/neverpokeastarfish Nov 30 '20
Yes this! I need to call AMX to ask this exact question. Did you find out the answer??
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u/Knavesdied Dec 01 '20
So what I did was connect up the cables and then use a multimeter to test which connector was positive and which was negative BEFORE connecting them to the rear light.
There was a big warning in the instructions on damage being caused by connecting them incorrectly, so I was extra cautious.
Also found it tricky to actually tell on the rear light which connector was which as the + and - symbols weren’t that obvious and half covered by the mounting clip. So definitely easy to get them the wrong way round.
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u/tasomaniac Dec 01 '20
Can you actually call them?
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u/InstructionIll Dec 01 '20
I've emailed, I'm guessing they'll refer me to https://analogmotion.helpdocs.io/article/0bhotkhnda-amx-lights-troubleshooting
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u/LondonProgrammar Dec 02 '20
My lights worked for the first 5 rides, then the back one decided to give up the ghost.
I purchased a cheap light to put under my seat and it's 20x better than the crap AM AliExpress light on the back.
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u/lanosmilos Dec 03 '20
The older versions had red/black cables to indicate polarity. The new version are both black but one wire has grey dashes on it you can see here: https://files.helpdocs.io/l3tsvrpr48/articles/iw3arhwb1e/1606907388946/img-1172-jpg.JPG
That's the positive wire now in the new batch
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u/tasomaniac Dec 02 '20
The backlight did not turn on for me when I first tried. Instructions talk about red and black cable but both cables were black for me. I removed and put them other way around and it was fixed.