Sports: Re: [DucatiST] Break Down

Charge your battery up and then put an ammeter in series with one of the leads to the battery. If the battery is draining from a short you will see a current flow. Figure out which circuits use the battery all the time and eliminate them by fuse pulling or disconnecting them...probably an alarm system on some bikes. If you still have a drain on the system, in other words, current flow, start pulling one fuse at a time until you lose the current flow. That will narrow down the number of culprits that may be shorted.

Now the hard part....follow one circuit at a time that that fuse protects and by process of elimination, you can narrow down the circuit even more. You can disconnect connections, pull lamps, etc to see if you stop the current flow. Once the current flow is stopped again, you're close to where there is a short or a problem.

Let us know what happened...Hopper

--- On Thu, 8/18/11, John Stockwell <tacka_sp3@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

From: John Stockwell <tacka_sp3@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] Break Down
To: "st2_owners@yahoogroups.com" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, August 18, 2011, 4:07 AM

Dave Where do you live. Takka.

From: Dave 43AU001 <alphauniform001@yahoo.com.au>
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2011 7:40 AM
Subject: [DucatiST] Break Down

G'day all I own a ST2 and it is having problems draining batteries, I bought a new battery and rode the bike every couple of days, the battery was purchased in end of July, it is already flat and I don't know what is causing it.
There are NO good quality mechanics in the local district that can trace and repair the fault, can anyone give any ideas where to look?

When it won't start sometimes I can jiggle the wires near the solinoid and it will come good until I stop it again then it can only be started by jumper leads from the car.

Thanks for any help Dave..