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[dewking]

wooha.... its alive
Glad you gotter fixed
Regards,
Dewking

[StPeteAPB]

Originally Posted by fury107

i finally figured it out. it turns out after everything i replaced it turns out the ballistic battery i bought is bad inside. i guess it has a loose contact or something. so after like $500 dumped in parts its the brand new battery. oh well guess i have a few spare parts now lol.

After reading this entire thread, I think someone should write a STICKY in the DIY area that says, first and foremost, if something has recently started going awry, what changed?

Though I work with software, it's can be the same situation in hardware.

When I have a customer who calls on Monday that things are not working properly but everything was fine before they left and closed shop on Friday ... I ask, "what changed?"

Often I hear, "nothing at all", which is usually BS.

In this case, and I'm not trying to rub $alt in your $500 wound, the battery was changed and wound up being the culprit. Who'd have thought? ... I know. But, I had a similar issue in the 80s with two bad new alternators, in a row, 'til I got one from a different batch that wound up testing properly.

Maybe write a letter to the manufacturer of the battery and share with them all the pain$ you went thru thinking, "it surely can't be the battery." Maybe they'll throw you a small gesture of appreciation of your business by sending you a battery charger (you'll have to round-about ask for it in your letter). Just a thought.

[husker1]

Originally Posted by KenD

Congratulations......! It all makes sense now the problem started when you changed that dead-gum crazy battery LOL. Weird how we sometimes refuse to believe a new part could be bad. A couple of lessons learned in this trouble though, one start troubleshooting the problem with the last part changed.
And Just because it's new and pretty on the outside doesn't mean there is not something wrong on the inside.... apply that one to a lot of things in Life!

Hmmm - I had an ex wife that resembles that statement.

[fury107]

yeah yeah i know i shoulda checked battery but i checked its voltage several times and it was always good. never would have thought to shake it. didnt realize it was battery till i put it in a friends cbr and had him ride around. at first he was like its fine. then i told him to hit bumps and viola it did same thing my fury did. lesson learned will try not to make same stupid mistake again. now i get to ship battery back to ballistic and the shiould send me a new one.

[Señor Gar]

Again, the first rule of diagnostics "You don't know what it isn't until you know what it is." as you have just demonstrated.

BUT there is an addendum to that: To be sure it is fixed you need to prove it for a period much longer than the intervals between previous failures. Let's hope the current day or two meets that requirement . This is doubly true if the believed culprit does not have any observable fault and this time it appears you have that covered .

[fury107]

ok so i been ridin it the last few days and o more problems. so it was def battery issue. so yay me for bein a dumbass and not checkin that first.

[Señor Gar]

Originally Posted by fury107

ok so i been ridin it the last few days and o more problems. so it was def battery issue. so yay me for bein a dumbass and not checkin that first.

Sounds like you are in the clear . Congratulations on tracing it back to the battery, many a good mechanic has fallen victim to the first rule of diagnostics You're no "dumass", that's good diagnostic work .