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Maseo:
Don`t go out and buy a starter....
Put your voltmeter probes on the battery posts, then press the start button.
What does the voltage read while the button is pressed?
Don`t go out and buy a starter....
Put your voltmeter probes on the battery posts, then press the start button.
What does the voltage read while the button is pressed?
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So the ****en bike started this afternoon and has been firing every damn time... IDFK. Im gonna try to see if maybe I have some parasitic draw somewhere. I dont trust it to drive 50 miles to work everyday again. It was at 12.87v before I started it and dropped to 12.66v once I shut it off. I started it again and the voltage showed 14.02v while running at the terminals. Its on a trickle charge right now. Ill take it off when its green and check the voltage throughout the day.
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So the ****en bike started this afternoon and has been firing every damn time... IDFK. Im gonna try to see if maybe I have some parasitic draw somewhere. I dont trust it to drive 50 miles to work everyday again. It was at 12.87v before I started it and dropped to 12.66v once I shut it off. I started it again and the voltage showed 14.02v while running at the terminals. Its on a trickle charge right now. Ill take it off when its green and check the voltage throughout the day.
Mote than likely it's not the battery. It's the control wire going to the solenoid or the solenoid itself. It takes a few amps to pull the solenoid in. If the connection is poor you'll get the click but no action. Another issue can be that you dropped one of the coils in the solenoid. There are 2, A pull in and an hold in. In either case, the solenoid does not pull in far enough to engage the contacts but clicks. If you tried the jumper method and it didn't work one of the coils could be open.
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YOU would not expect it, but corroded wires I have seen. Run a volt test from battery ground to the ground wire under starter. Place one test lead on batt ground and one test lead to ground wire under starter while you have meter on 20 vdc setting. with engine on hit the starter switch and see if you have any voltage reading on meter ground to ground. If you read any voltage between batt ground and basically engine ground, you need to find the ground connection that is bad. I think this may be the problem. This is called a reverse voltage drop. If the meter reads more than .5 volts dc, you have found your problem
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