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« on: September 28, 2016, 02:50:25 PM »
Over the past 2 weeks I have had an intermittent issue with the bike cutting out on right hand turns. In 20 hours of riding it did it 4 or 5 times.
Had the bike in for a service with the dealer and, of course, it worked perfectly when they tested for it.
Last night the fault became permanent. The dealer (mototecnic) made time to look at it today and found a broken wire in the ignition switch, which they soldered up for me and had the bike going again. Fantastic job guys. But when I took it for a ride I noticed no regen in custom mode, switched to eco and regen worked fine, back to custom, no regen. Then I noticed that I had no head light, tail light, break light and blinkers, but the instrument panel works fine, everything on it is normal.
I checked the fuses under the seat and none are blown, checked the fuse that goes in with a 1/2 turn, just under the "tank" at the back (assume its the dc-dc converter) and its fine as well. Took the tank off and checked that the ignition cable plug was still plugged in correctly (and it was, only uses 2 of the 4 ignition wires which means the ignition is extremely simple). The ignition turns the bike on and off so the 2 wires are being connected with the ignition on.
The problem must be something else.
Has anyone had this happen to them or know what it might be?
Could the act of soldering the broken wire have sent some current back down the wire damaging something else on the bike? (like welding with an electric arc welder on a car without disconnecting the battery - fries the diodes in the alternator).