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I had hard time finding anything on wiring a reverse light for the Honda Pioneer 1000-5. I have a 2022 Trail model but believe the wiring is the same across all the model years to date. The best I came up with was finding that most people use the pre-wired plug for a backup alarm which makes sense. I also wanted to wire my light to an auxbeam controller so I could both control the light manually when needed and have it light up when in reverse. Below is my journey in hopes that others find it useful and save them some time.
I did use the pre-wired plug for a reverse beeper. The Honda SXS store has a pigtail male plug for the pre-wired female which I ordered.
I used the LED Light bar from Rough Country SKU 92006. Highly recommend this light as the mounts secure to the cage by loosening the two bolts on either side.
I used a generic 2 prong plug from the auto parts store to wire the ground from the light to pin 30 and ground from reverse gear to pin 87a. It could be simplified if someone wanted to cut off the pre-wired plug and use a 3 prong plug from the auto parts store instead. I considered this, but ultimately chose to do it the way I did because I wanted to do all of my soldering in the comfort of my home rather than climbing under the machine trying to tie everything together.
The auxbeam controller is normally grounded. For this reason, I needed a relay inline to switch to ground. I first started with a 4 pin really. Pin 85 was positive from the controller, 86 ground to controller, 87 ground (I used controller ground), 30 ground to light. This setup works, but I found the machine would kick a transmission fault when the light was controlled by the controller. The controller was sending a ground signal to a sensor that was "tricking" the machine into thinking it was in reverse. The only way to clear the fault was to turn the machine off.
From here I realized I needed a 5 pin relay in place of the 4. The 5 pin relay was setup with 85 positive from controller, 86 ground to controller, 87 ground (I used controller ground), 30 going to light bar, 87a going to reverse gear. This setup will keep the ground circuit always for the reverse gear but interrupt this ground when the auxbeam controller is used to switch the light on. This prevents the transmission fault from the machine thinking it is in reverse bc the sensor is no longer seeing a completed circuit when the auxbeam controller is used.
Hopes this helps anyone looking to wire a light in the same configuration.
I did use the pre-wired plug for a reverse beeper. The Honda SXS store has a pigtail male plug for the pre-wired female which I ordered.
I used the LED Light bar from Rough Country SKU 92006. Highly recommend this light as the mounts secure to the cage by loosening the two bolts on either side.
I used a generic 2 prong plug from the auto parts store to wire the ground from the light to pin 30 and ground from reverse gear to pin 87a. It could be simplified if someone wanted to cut off the pre-wired plug and use a 3 prong plug from the auto parts store instead. I considered this, but ultimately chose to do it the way I did because I wanted to do all of my soldering in the comfort of my home rather than climbing under the machine trying to tie everything together.
The auxbeam controller is normally grounded. For this reason, I needed a relay inline to switch to ground. I first started with a 4 pin really. Pin 85 was positive from the controller, 86 ground to controller, 87 ground (I used controller ground), 30 ground to light. This setup works, but I found the machine would kick a transmission fault when the light was controlled by the controller. The controller was sending a ground signal to a sensor that was "tricking" the machine into thinking it was in reverse. The only way to clear the fault was to turn the machine off.
From here I realized I needed a 5 pin relay in place of the 4. The 5 pin relay was setup with 85 positive from controller, 86 ground to controller, 87 ground (I used controller ground), 30 going to light bar, 87a going to reverse gear. This setup will keep the ground circuit always for the reverse gear but interrupt this ground when the auxbeam controller is used to switch the light on. This prevents the transmission fault from the machine thinking it is in reverse bc the sensor is no longer seeing a completed circuit when the auxbeam controller is used.
Hopes this helps anyone looking to wire a light in the same configuration.
