Originally Posted by
SimonH
Bloody electrics!
Having a nightmare getting the Blade going. As usual, as it currently lives outside under a cover, I removed the battery once I'd stopped riding it for the winter and left it on trickle charge, and now all good, perfect battery generating 12.8 volts, bang on spec.
Put the battery in, disarm the immobiliser, ignition on, all lights present so so far so good, press the starter button ... nothing... argh!
So here's where I'm at with it:
I assumed it was an issue with the ancient immobiliser (Datatool Duo). Now mercifully it is at least immobiliser only and quite straight forward to bypass so I did that, still nothing.
Reinstated the immobiliser, nothing, and here's the thing, I think it is working as when you touch the fob thing to the doodah (sorry for the technical terms!) you can hear the relay in the immobiliser, then 20 seconds it clicks off again, as it's supposed to.
Bike is in neutral, kill switch is set to on, so I'm a bit puzzled.
When you press the starter there is no sound from the starter relay so there is clearly no juice getting to it, and there is no drain on the battery to suggest it is trying at all.
There's an inline fuse going to the immobiliser which is fine (stuck a new one in just in case).
The only thing I haven't checked is the 20A fuse to the starter/lights as I'd looked at the wrong circuit diagram and on previous models the starter/ignition were shared so I'd assumed if the ignition comes on it's ok, but on this one it's shared with the lights so I guess I should check that tomorrow, but I'll be amazed if that's the issue.
Unfortunately electrics are not my thing so I'm starting to run out of ideas, but all very frustrating as obviously it was fine before.
Any ideas welcome as long as a electrical numpty can implement them!
TBH once I get it going again I'm inclined to do the immobiliser bypass thing anyway as it's bound to fail some time and I've read a few horror stories about that happening mid ride...
Arghh!