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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 07:55 PM
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started the bike up this weekend to go for a ride and looked at my volt gauge and it was all the way to the right reading 16 volts, put a volt meter on the battery while it was running and it read 14.4 volts, turned the bike off and the meter read 12.6 volts, took it out for about a 3 hour ride when I got back all the readings were the same but the gauge was still at 16 volts. could the gauge be bad or am I missing something??
 
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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 07:58 PM
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Bad gauge movement. Replace it.
 
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Old Nov 27, 2012 | 06:04 AM
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Sounds like your charging system is fine. Dat gauge gotta go!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2012 | 08:57 PM
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Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:19 PM
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Out of the 4 batwing bikes I've had, 2 have read correct and 2 have read 16 volts when cranked, including my 2012. It's very annoying.

Tried to get it changed under warranty when I had the bike in the dealership for a week getting cams. They danced around the problem and in the end, the crappy gauge is still there. They'll fix it before the warranty is out though.
 
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