A lovely day to be sat at the side of the road !

[snapper]

Well it had to happen eventually

 
 
2003 gen 1 thou  abit strange this one last night I went to check the bike as I haddent used it for a couple of weeks and the battery was flat (just clicling when I hit the starter button) jumped it of aanother battery  and she started first time warmed her up left her to run for a good 20 mins , stopper her , no warning lights or rev counter error codes . but still the battery was flat .
 
I left it connected to the other battery overnight and again this morning it was still flat but jump started easily
 
As I pulled away all the lights went out the speedo and rev counter all died ! the only thing working was the multigauge !
 
 but the bike was running fine ! I did a half hour run still nothing every now and then all would burst into life then die again !
 
stopped the bike and it was still flat !
 
I went to my appointment and jumped the bike still easily  but still no lights or speedo and rev counter !
 
 I road for about five minutes the the bike started to pop bag and slowly dies till it got to tick over speeds at which it ran fine !
 
I then got to spend a lazy hour and a half waitting to be recovered !
 
anyway , My thinking is the battery has died but still had a bit of life in it , but is no longer accepting a charge so once the battery power level got so low it could no longer run the bike ?
 
 My question is if its why wasnt the charge from the bike alternater keeping it going , ( as yet I havent been able to test to see if it is sending out a charge )
 
 anyone have any other ideas ? some thing I might need to check ?
 
 I will check and clean all the connections as well as charge the battery   
 

[Falcon 269]

Aside from confirming that the battery will take and hold a full charge, next check this:

http://www.yamahafz1oa.com/eskortsdefectiveconnectorreplacement.shtml



Mike

[JoeRock]

If the battery is THAT flat that it can't hold a charge, your alternator won't be able to run the bike. The bike runs off the battery, so irregardless of how that is being charged if it can't output a decent supply then the bike will conk out. Bit strange that the engine was still running though without the clocks and that on!

[solorider]

My blackbird did something similar, I fitted a new battery and no problems after, annoyingly the battery wasn't that old,the optimate killed that battery.

[snapper]

Thanks for the replies
 
Mike I did look at that mod but checked mine last year cleaned it and it did seem fine so left well along The old addage ( if it ant broke don't fix it )  maybe I should now though
 
Solo Mines a fairly new battery , one of the motobats glass mat ones but I don't have power to my garage so I can only connect it to another charged battery  with some small jump leads I made !
 
hopefully this weekend I will get a chance to have a route around clean and check the bits and bobs and try charging the battery
 
 need to fine a electrical tester as well
 
 

[fazer-rat]

My blackbird did something similar, I fitted a new battery and no problems after, annoyingly the battery wasn't that old,the optimate killed that battery.

glad its not just me,, used to charge my batteries once a month,, then plugged an optimate in and totally killed the battery
best thing is to take it off the bike when parking it up.

[AdieR]

Get your battery "load-tested" (a load test is NOT a voltage test).

Reg / rec is worth checking too (bear in mind a failed r/r can take a battery with it).

[CRH]

Get your battery "load-tested" (a load test is NOT a voltage test).

Reg / rec is worth checking too (bear in mind a failed r/r can take a battery with it).

....yep defo chk the reg/rectifier my mate had a very similar prob with his bandit 12 replaced battery and still did it 2wks later and that ended up being a very green" plug connector to the reg/rec, but he put a new one on anyway!!