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My experience installing the bellypan with three DigiNow SC2.5's... this will require multiple posts on this thread due to being limited to only four pictures at a time... so please be patient, and wait to comment until *after* I've indicated "that's all folks" 

I got the original onboard removed by following Sam's instructions in his New Zeroland video:


After unboxing the DigiNows in their pan, I was at first confused by the several small brown connectors, thinking that at least one would plug into the bike's brown connector that was originally connected to the old onboard.  Only after discovering the large, lighter brown Anderson connector in the new pan did I realize the bike's Anderson AUX is wider than those darker brown connectors... and thus that smaller dark brown connector on the bike would remain unused. Since its connector pins are now exposed, I should probably protect them from moisture via dielectric grease... but I've not explored that yet.

In the last two weeks, I've had multiple recurrences of the throttle being disabled at startup on my 2011 XU.  I don't hear any indications of diagnostic beeps at startup beyong the single selftest beep, so no indication of a startup fault being observed.

Each occurrence has been in the afternoon (5p), after being plugged up all afternoon in the shade (highest temp was 85F).  In most instances, the issue cleared up after anywhere from 3 to 10 restarts over a few minutes.  Given no indications of startup faults, I had initially thought perhaps the kickstand disabler switch might be hanging, but I would assume the red triangle on the instrument panel would flash if the kickstand, kill switch, or some other thing was actively disabling the throttle.

Only one instance of more-odd-than-that has occurred.  Last week, after starting the bike, testing the throttle for two feet to see it was working, I finished suiting up and tried to take off.  I got about a half second of throttle before it disabled.  It took several minutes of restarts to get past this.  It is this working-then-died that has me concerned the most, as I keep imagining it happen at every stoplight I stop at.

As unlikely as I personally think that the issue is a battery temp thing, I started unplugging it around 430p to give it a good 30min unplugged.  I still had one occurrence of disabled throttle since doing that early unplugging.  Granted, I have it either plugged up all workday (800a - 500p) or just since returning from lunch (100p - 500p), but it's certainly not charging all that time... it recharges its half-empty pack in about 30min.

I'm not convinced that there's a loose connection anywhere between the various hardware switches (kickstand, killswitch), since again I think either of those would illuminate the red triangle.  I'm left thinking there's a software bug, or an overzealous temp safety switch somewhere.

This issue has not occurred even once on my morning startups, where it has been plugged up 530p - 730a in my garage.

Ideas anyone?  As background, I got this 2011 XU new in June 2012, and have just under 1800 miles on it.  I drive 7 miles one way to work, so I only use 4 to 5 bars one way, and probably five miles is at 50mph.  It always recharges half-to-full in about 30min, and I've never seen any abnormal light indicators on the charger itself.