Hebb Electroglide 500 throttle needed
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If it has the identical functions, it could be used to replace it. You'd probably have to figure out the wiring by opening up each one and measuring where each wire goes to inside, to make sure you don't blow anything up on your controller or the rest of the system (or the throttle), making careful notes and pictures of what went where between throttle and system for each wire *before* you take the old throttle off and apart.
There are no guarantees that wire colors mean anything, or are used even vaguely similarly between systems and parts, and almost nothing out there has a wiring diagram with it or for it (and some of what does can't be trusted because it may have been for another version of the same thing but the sellers don't know what they have so they don't know they're different now).
If it does not have the identical functions**** then as long as the throttle itself is the same kind of sensor as in your original (hall vs potentiometer, etc) you can make the throttle part work, but whether the other parts work depends on what they are and how your system is wired vs how it is wired.
**** for instance, if yours has a power switch, some units use that to cut power to the throttle sensor, some use it to cut power to the controller, and you would have to disassemble and rewire the throttle unit to use one version with the other type of system. Otherwise you could damage the throttle *and controller* with the battery voltage going to the wrong place.
There are other ways these can look externally identical yet can be setup differently internally that can also cause problems or damage, so make sure it doesn't just look like yours, but that it does the same things your does in the same way, or that you're willing to disassemble and trace out wires and rewire as needed.
There's a bunch of threads over the years for people changing or replacing throttle or other handlebar units, where they posted while figuring out the wiring; TommyCat has helped with a fair number of those so you can search for his posts to find them if you don't run across them any other way.
Just remember that no matter what you see has already been done one way, you must still verify your own stuff's wiring/etc and the new stuff's wiring/etc *before* you connect anything, unless you have the money and time to buy new controllers and other parts for your system to replace damaged stuff.
There are no guarantees that wire colors mean anything, or are used even vaguely similarly between systems and parts, and almost nothing out there has a wiring diagram with it or for it (and some of what does can't be trusted because it may have been for another version of the same thing but the sellers don't know what they have so they don't know they're different now).
If it does not have the identical functions**** then as long as the throttle itself is the same kind of sensor as in your original (hall vs potentiometer, etc) you can make the throttle part work, but whether the other parts work depends on what they are and how your system is wired vs how it is wired.
**** for instance, if yours has a power switch, some units use that to cut power to the throttle sensor, some use it to cut power to the controller, and you would have to disassemble and rewire the throttle unit to use one version with the other type of system. Otherwise you could damage the throttle *and controller* with the battery voltage going to the wrong place.
There are other ways these can look externally identical yet can be setup differently internally that can also cause problems or damage, so make sure it doesn't just look like yours, but that it does the same things your does in the same way, or that you're willing to disassemble and trace out wires and rewire as needed.
There's a bunch of threads over the years for people changing or replacing throttle or other handlebar units, where they posted while figuring out the wiring; TommyCat has helped with a fair number of those so you can search for his posts to find them if you don't run across them any other way.
Just remember that no matter what you see has already been done one way, you must still verify your own stuff's wiring/etc and the new stuff's wiring/etc *before* you connect anything, unless you have the money and time to buy new controllers and other parts for your system to replace damaged stuff.
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