focy foc foc... what have I done

[tomjimtom]

Sorry if this has been answered before, a quick search didn't throw up anything..

Right, so, dug bike out yesterday, first time in a while.
Battery had been on charge, was reading 12.5V when I whacked it on the bike.

Fired up, everything fine.

Tried all my lights everything fine. - except. When I put it to full beam or push the flash button the clocks go completely dead for a second. time/trip doesn't reset, but all idiot lights go on then off. then when riding, after indicating, they went off permanently. stopped, turned ign off and on and they came back on.


My other woe is when I went to restart it, nothing, the battery had gone down to 11 volts (tried to start straight after turning engine off, not left overnight or anything)..

Now, I'm hoping to high foc it's just a new battery is needed, because I did the reg/rec connector block over the winter, first ride since and I don't want to hear that I've foced it up..
I'm going to put the charged battery back on tomorrow and see if the battery is being charged.

(Does anyone know how to check I'm getting current from the alternator?)

sorry if some of this seems stupid, I've never done it before so want to make sure I don't go down the wrong route and spend lots of money...


Thanks for any and all replies

Tom

[b1k3rdude]

Im sure Ive read about the clocks going dead thing on here before, so Im sure someone will belong with the answer.

[Falcon 269]

Battery is knackered.  You could tell that by the 12.5v reading when it came off the charger.  Should be 12.8v across the terminals on a good battery fully charged.  All the subsequent symptoms confirm it.

You can test the alternator charging output by putting your voltmeter across the terminals when the motor is running.  You should be reading 13.6 - 14.0v at 5k rpm.

[Tmation]

I just had to get a new battery for mine, second one in 8 years.


Got one of these:[size=78%]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MotoBatt-QuadF...20bf7b2c22[/size]


Ordered one day (early) arrived the next 

[tomjimtom]

Thanks all,
I remember something about the dead clocks, but couldn't find it and thought that reset the time/trip...

I'm going to try today, just to make sure there isn't a problem with the charging system too

I'll also buy my new battery..

I've had this one two years, but I've always been a bit rough with it, letting it go dead, jumping it from car etc.

Thanks again, I love this forum