Relay board???

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toon2
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Relay board???

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Will a relay board off a motorcycle work with MicroS?

looking for a small water tight system.
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Assuming the fuse box is wired correctly for Microsquirt there should be no reason you can't use your oem fuse box.
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sparkandfuel.com wrote:Assuming the fuse box is wired correctly for Microsquirt there should be no reason you can't use your oem fuse box.
I am going to a cycle salvage Fri. , what do I need to look for to make sure it's wired correctly?
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take a look at this page, a picture speaks a thousand words:
http://www.megamanual.com/v22manual/mwire.htm#rb

If you mean, "what's the simple answer?", that is the simple answer! It may be oversimplifying it if we get any deeper.
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toon2 wrote:Will a relay board off a motorcycle work with MicroS?

looking for a small water tight system.
Yes. As long as it has relays that switch using the low side of the relay coil.
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MegaScott wrote:
toon2 wrote:Will a relay board off a motorcycle work with MicroS?

looking for a small water tight system.
Yes. As long as it has relays that switch using the low side of the relay coil.
What is the " low side" of the relay coil?

How would I be able to tell?
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Most stock ECU's use "low side switching" to turn stuff on and off. What that means is that the +12v coil lead of the relay is hooked to power all the time, and the ECU completes the circuit to turn on the relay by providing a ground, or a "low" to energise the relay. The same holds true for most of the other loads driven by ECU's such as the injector drive and idle solenoids.
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