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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I had been running it for a while without grounding it and it worked fine, though still no LED. When I grounded it to the frame, the LED did not illuminate. Do I need to run it to the neg. battery terminal?
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Rick,
Like any electrical load, you should be able to connect to any grounded, metal surface in the car. Do you have a multimeter? Connect one test lead to the source wire, then use the other test lead to probe your potential ground connection. If the ground is good (e.g. not insulated, not a continuous path to ground, etc.), it should read the same as battery voltage. Not being a motorcycle guy, perhaps there are subsections of the bike that aren't electrically grounded.
There's also the possibility the switch is kaput as new.
Hope this helps,
Sherwood