Blowing Fuses... WTF ?
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Blowing Fuses... WTF ?
Out riding on Saturday and jest a going down the road and all of a sudden, poof and gone are my instruments. Once back at the house I pull the fuse for the instruments out and it's blown. The radio was also acting funky. It would only pull in one station when I scanned even though there are several close by. Replaced the fuse and when I turned on the ignition, everything was fine. When I fired her up, POOF... blew another fuse. The only mods I've made lately was adding a second amp for the stereo and I've gone a few hundred trouble free miles with it. The one dumbass thing I did was hook up the wrong wires back to the oil pressure line. I put the damn volt meter lines on the oil pressure gauge line so yes it lights up nicely but gauge no workie. However, again I've gone a couple of hundred miles like that. I do have an amplified power antenna connected to the hot side of the voltmeter gauge. I removed the volt meter gauge and the ambient air temp gauges and put in tweeters. Wondering if that's shorting out somewhere ?
The other thought is that since I just had to replace the batter that was only a year old is maybe a voltage regulator gone bad? I checked it when I put in the new battery with a cheap gauge and it's reading about 14V at 2000 rpm which is about right. I know there was a recall on the 06 voltage regulators so I've got an appt with the stealership on Wed am. Yes, going to fix that plug issue tomorrow night before I take it in. If they pulled the fairing and found that and it was the cause, forget the warranty lmao. Still covered for another 10 months under warranty.
Any thoughts ?
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The other thought is that since I just had to replace the batter that was only a year old is maybe a voltage regulator gone bad? I checked it when I put in the new battery with a cheap gauge and it's reading about 14V at 2000 rpm which is about right. I know there was a recall on the 06 voltage regulators so I've got an appt with the stealership on Wed am. Yes, going to fix that plug issue tomorrow night before I take it in. If they pulled the fairing and found that and it was the cause, forget the warranty lmao. Still covered for another 10 months under warranty.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks
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RE: Blowing Fuses... WTF ?
From years of experience with electrical mods, if I may, I have found to try disconnecting the latest mods one at a time until you find the culprit. If you have volt meter, they are invaluable as well. I wish you the best. Electrical problems can drive you nuts. I had one on my last bike for nearly 6 weeks that turned out to be an LED tail light bulb plugged in the wrong way (reversed) that actually deactivated my cruise control and locked up all my brake lights. Could not figure it out to save my life.
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RE: Blowing Fuses... WTF ?
Thanks Bruno. Just my thoughts exactly in seeing if I can figure out what the hell is going on before I go to the stealership. I am thinking it may be a ground issue. Just had a new set of bars put on and indy disconnected the battery and may not have a good ground on the amp. Only since then has it acted up.
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