14-02-12, 01:36 PM
(14-02-12, 11:09 AM)richfzs link Wrote: [quote author=Fazerider link=topic=1733.msg12853#msg12853 date=1329212576]
The only other relay in the system is the starter relay and that doesn't activate until you hit the button so you wouldn't normally hear it as the click is drowned out by the sound of the engine turning over.
Point being, with the starter relay is that when the battery is low, it reaches a stage where it doesn't hold the relay open properly, so you hear (loud and clear), the relay cycling, as described by Mr Mouse just over half way down his post.
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I guess you mean "closed" rather than "open".
And only if you're pressing the starter button at the time. Since Mobile Mouse mentioned, near the top of his post, that he had previously heard this chatter while the bike was running and he was putting his gloves on, it seemed unlikely that the starter relay is involved. Even if an intermittent short was causing the starter relay to be activated, I'd expect the whirr of the motor to be more audible than the relay clicking.