Hello all. 08 Ultra Classic, all factory. About four weeks ago, I removed the factory HD radio and front speakers and installed a Pioneer Mixtrax in dash receiver and two Hogtunes speakers in the fairing. I also added a Hogtunes 2 channel app for the front speakers and used splicers to tie in the rear speakers, after cutting the wires out of the factory harness that were wired into harness for factory HD radio, CD player, CB. Tested each item on each step and everything worked as expected and sounded great. Yesterday, while riding an event, I had a voltage light come on. No worries, this has happened before and then goes away. (Dont judge me) But a mile or so after that, the music started to stutter, I found that odd, since I use an mp3 player, connected to the Pioneer via a Male to make connector, that was setup when I installed the radio. And have had no issues with any file downloaded. So after forwarding the track and experiencing the same thing, I paused it, to concentrate on the ride and other riders. Radio was still powered on. About a mile or so later, radio went blank, nothing on display. I'm like okay. Started to pray I didn't see or smell smoke, but I'm watching. Couple of miles later, tachometer starts to red line and then flatline, engine rpms do not change. Then it flatlined and stayed that way. Then the speedometer did same thing, I told wife we had problem. Motor started to stutter and lost power, I was grateful there was a place to pull off the road and did so. No smoke, no smell, but absolutely nothing lighting up on bike. Trail vehicle stops, we get it loaded and head to HD which was end point of ride. Pull battery and its trashed. Install new battery, bike starts like a champ, shows 12 volts idling and with a small increase of throttle, guage jumps to 14 volts. Shop foreman walks out. Says, that he feels like stator got hot and stopped charging. Thus bike was running off battery instead of stator, that works with another piece to provide power for bike, at least that's what i remember him saying. Anyway we we get on bike and start home, watching guage and all goes well, showed 14 volts anytime engine was above idle. Once home, we realized that the rear factory speakers are not working. So, at this point, I'm at a loss as to where to start my diagnosis of determining what the problem is. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.

 

 

Correct, electrical issue, now fixed, have not seen the voltage light come on since new battery installed.

I honestly dont remember if the rear speakers were spliced into wiring coming from amp, it was wired by a local stereo shop, with instructions from him, where I should splice the wires, but I can find out tomorrow.

I haven't removed the fairing yet, due to this being my primary transportation. I have a volt meter, if you will, tell my what to set it on, and I can then attach the leads to the two speaker wire, at the rear speakers, and see if I have power.

Ty for replying and offer to help. Attached is a pic of the volt meter I have.

 

 

Problem solved. Ty for the info, help and suggestions. It was in the settings. I had noted that the fader was not working. Grab my manual and then started looking at settings. Some how, when radio powered on, after new battery install, it set rear speakers to sub woofer, I changed that to full range and rear speakers starting playing!!!