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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankroche" data-source="post: 200842" data-attributes="member: 4759">So started up the bike last night in the dark and no headlight, high or low! And to make it worse halfway home they were turning traffic around due to a downed power line!!So thinking about it last night I decided to check it out but first I downloaded the photos of the electrical system, printed them and highlighted the headlight and wiring through to the battery. Then I started by checking the fuse and it was fine visually and by continuity check... hooked up a maintenance charger to keep the battery up and started to remove the headlight.Once done I turned the headlight and tried the socket connector and low and behold the light started to work, high and low! So thinking about it I realized that I hadn't fully seated the last time i had the headlight out.In further reflection I realized that each time I started the bike (at night cause you can easily see the headlamp) it seemed to have the headlight come fully bright on after getting the bike started. So this must be the stator coming on line and providing full voltage / amperage and overcoming the resistance of the so-so connection and letting the light run at full capacity.So always check out the simple stuff first!</blockquote>