LHS
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Good evening all
I was going to take my 2009 Ridgeback out for a ride the other night and the battery was dead. Normally I keep it on a battery tender but for the last few weeks I haven’t put it on there. Put the charger on it for a little while then took it off and it started right up and ran good and seem to do fine. I was out for a couple hours and by the time I got it home the Headlight was real dim and it wouldn’t start again . Put it on a battery tender for a couple of days and it seem to charge up fine. Took it off the tender/charger let it sit for a little bit put the meter on it and it showed 12.96. So I started it up and check the voltage at idle which was 12.59 and then I run it up to about 2000 - 2500 RPM and the meter didn’t climb at all stayed about 12.59 let it come back down to an idol same thing about 12.59 brought it back up to about 2500 again and it still didn’t climb. Shouldn’t the amps climb as the RPMs do ? Here is a little video that I took with my phone while it ran of the lights on the EHC and components on there. Well I guess I won’t upload the video it keeps telling me it doesn’t have an allowed extension. So here is a couple of picture of it idling the red and yellow lights on the EHC stay lit and the Green one flashes . On the component just to the left of the circuit breaker has a red light that flashes real fast and a blue and yellow one that flashes alternately which I can’t seem to catch in the picture. Please ignore the wire hanging over the left side of the bike that’s just my garage door opener which I move so I can get a picture. Think maybe it still could be the battery? I would think that since it took a charge the voltage should climb while bringing the RPMs up. This is the first time I haven’t had it on a battery tender since I got the bike. I also just noticed there’s nothing holding that battery down so I’m gonna have to figure out what to do there/get whatever was supposed to be on there from the factory. Any suggestion guys on what to test and how to test it would be greatly appreciated .
I was going to take my 2009 Ridgeback out for a ride the other night and the battery was dead. Normally I keep it on a battery tender but for the last few weeks I haven’t put it on there. Put the charger on it for a little while then took it off and it started right up and ran good and seem to do fine. I was out for a couple hours and by the time I got it home the Headlight was real dim and it wouldn’t start again . Put it on a battery tender for a couple of days and it seem to charge up fine. Took it off the tender/charger let it sit for a little bit put the meter on it and it showed 12.96. So I started it up and check the voltage at idle which was 12.59 and then I run it up to about 2000 - 2500 RPM and the meter didn’t climb at all stayed about 12.59 let it come back down to an idol same thing about 12.59 brought it back up to about 2500 again and it still didn’t climb. Shouldn’t the amps climb as the RPMs do ? Here is a little video that I took with my phone while it ran of the lights on the EHC and components on there. Well I guess I won’t upload the video it keeps telling me it doesn’t have an allowed extension. So here is a couple of picture of it idling the red and yellow lights on the EHC stay lit and the Green one flashes . On the component just to the left of the circuit breaker has a red light that flashes real fast and a blue and yellow one that flashes alternately which I can’t seem to catch in the picture. Please ignore the wire hanging over the left side of the bike that’s just my garage door opener which I move so I can get a picture. Think maybe it still could be the battery? I would think that since it took a charge the voltage should climb while bringing the RPMs up. This is the first time I haven’t had it on a battery tender since I got the bike. I also just noticed there’s nothing holding that battery down so I’m gonna have to figure out what to do there/get whatever was supposed to be on there from the factory. Any suggestion guys on what to test and how to test it would be greatly appreciated .
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