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Old Mar 30, 2016 | 04:41 PM
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Just curious. Do you have LED lights on that bike?
If not how different would the numbers be with LED's?
 
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Old Mar 30, 2016 | 10:49 PM
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Stock trike with security. Any extra load would affect the Ignition stage. Voltage would drop off faster, and be deeper, depending on size of load. Lights, stereo, GPS, anything that came on when you turned on the ignition.

As each bike is different, that chart is mostly for my benefit. I can come back and run the same test in the future to compare the numbers. It will give me a quick look at battery, tender, ignition circuits, fuel pump, starter and charge circuits. Stuff will show up here that might not be noticeable until it's much worse.

Or, in other words, just another way for an old fart to fool around...
 
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Old Mar 30, 2016 | 10:51 PM
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Now I gotta dump my Fluke 179 on Craig's List...
 
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Old Mar 31, 2016 | 08:38 AM
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That was cool, thanks for posting.
 
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