No Electrical

Here is an weird one. I have a 1982 Maxim 750 - Over 105,000 miles. Runs great. Left for work yesterday and it fired right up. Left work to come home and it fired right up. Riding down the road with no problems - no sputtering, no sluggish turn signals (early indication something is going on). Perfectly fine. I stopped for gas and when I turned the key back on - nothing happened. No dash lights, no horn, no brake lights, no turn signals, no starter. My auxiliary lights work though because those are wired directly to the battery. So I am getting juice from the battery. I checked the fuse box and they are all ok. No lose ground (otherwise I would have had problems riding). I wiggled every wire I could find but got nothing. Is there a main fuse tucked away somewhere? I was not able to get to it last night after it was trailered home. I will get to it when I get off work today. But any ideas? Just odd that I got no early warnings that something was amiss.

 

If the aux lights are wired to both pos and neg battery terminals, it's possible the cables for the bike's stock electrics are simply not getting a good connection.

Never assume just because you see something working off battery power that everything is properly supplied. Electric is the problem? Start with battery and terminals before anything else.