Replacement relay information

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Replacement relay information

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I have been having various electrical issues which ultimately traced back to a very corroded 10 pin connector.

My rear wiring harness was hacked into pretty good by a previous owner which would cause lights to flicker or not work at all.

After replacing all the bad wiring in the back I still had an issue where I had no brake lights. Swapping around the brake light relay with the main relay above the headlight gave me brake lights again, but now my cruise control would not come on.

Using the information in the Dollar4Dollar section, I went to O'Reilly's near my house and they cross referenced the Toyota relay that is shown as a replacement for the headlight relay. I checked all the relays and they all were the same on the bike, so I knew that I should be able to use that same part number for my brake light relay.

After getting home I noticed the diagram of operation on the side of the relay had different pin numbers from the original. So I wondered if I would have a problem. After studying the connection diagram I saw while the pin numbering was different, the overall operation of the relay would be the same. Here are pictures of both relays with the original being on the left and the new one on the right. As inexpensive as the relay is ($13), it is worth keeping an extra just in case.

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Does it work ? If so use it.
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... hoping for the best, but from the drawing on the can, no way in "heck" it
will work..... JM2C
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crankyb wrote:... hoping for the best, but from the drawing on the can, no way in "heck" it
will work..... JM2C
It does work just fine.

I realized the two drawings are different but I just assumed it was two different manufacturers showing the same behavior.

With a relay, it is my understanding that there will be a low current side which when activated will enable the high current switch to activate.

Any electrical engineers out there who can shed some light on this?
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On both my bikes I went thru all the relays before I hard wired the 10 pin connectors and replaced them all with Toyota denso relays which cost me a fraction of what the OEM relay costs. I know the diagram on the relay looks different but if it plugs in try it, worse that can happen is a blown fuse.
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