Sports: Re: [DucatiST] still electrical gremlins

Aaron, using a charger to use as a starter is bad on the charger, especially the maintainers. They are not made for the high current flows of an engaged starter system.

Beware! Hopper

--- On Thu, 10/13/11, Aaron Grossman <agrossma07@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Aaron Grossman <agrossma07@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] still electrical gremlins
To: "st2_owners@yahoogroups.com" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 12:55 PM

Thanks

This is why I tried starting it still on the Tender. I can try jumping it to see if that helps when I get home.

Is the front, yellow relay interchangeable with the two under the seat?

~A

From: Rolland Waters <theshadking@gmail.com>
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] still electrical gremlins

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Aaron Grossman <agrossma07@yahoo.com> wrote:

Testing the battery with my DMM showed near-full charge. I put it on the charger over night, and it now claims to be fully charged. Still no power to the anything when I turn the key. If it's stopped raining when I get home from work, I'll try playing with connections, etc.

Batteries lie, especially with just a DMM. It can have a surface charge and be fully discharged. That's why they test batteries under load.

But I don't think that's the specific problem here, if it is in fact the battery. Rather, I think there's a bad weld or the like in the battery which is causing it to act occasionally as a capacitor / intermittent connect. Therefore, you should try it with the bike jumped.

If the symptoms repeat with the bike jumped, then you can work upstream from the battery as has been mentioned.