Not messing around. Replace before I get stranded.
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Red lights on EHC?
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Sorry to hear that Mike. Check your battery connections and voltage. Not sure why all the lights would come on at the same time?
If your voltage is fine? You could disconnect the red and black leads from the battery, wait a few minutes then touch them together to drain the EHC Hook them back up and see what happens.
Thx bro! I will unhook it tonight
I would unhook all the grounds off the battery post so no wire is on that negative battery post. I would then take the EHC's ground and ground it to the frame. I would take a remote wire and tap that to ground off the positive lead battery post. With all the grounds of the battery, nothing grounded is in the loop to cause a short on the posi side of the battery. I would think you want a ground to the frame, not backwash into the EHC.
Tap-tap-tap of the remote wire is more like draining the capacitors inside of every little voltage so the bike starts at zero (0000) in binary language. With battery negative still off for black box drainage of the signal [held], you can take an ohm meter, set it to millivolts, ground the one probe, then tap each pin hole in the 'main harness disconnect' until you find the meter set off a reading. That is where the capacitor is. Find those pins reading at the meter and retap until the meter no longer reads. I think both should word equally, but I'm a pin chaser with neg off its battery post.
Yes, bummer about those black boxes and why I hang here just for something like this one. So see if this makes sense to you and why I would concur with Rottie about doing this first. Say if I use a resistor and the only two movements inside the black box is a magnetic on/off, moving in 4 directions like a tick-tack-tow [intel inside] play board, I would think at this voltage level this low; would trigger a code of all lights to read as low voltage(?) Only your volt meter knows for sure. The guess is 12.2v and below, the math v. the working 5v needed to run the black box is in question? And that voltage is just a pop out of the head, but you get the idea about being up against 5v to start.
The next thing is how do you read full LED panel lit off? Does it self-diagnose an say I'm dead? Wouldn't a burnt box blow out a block on the tick-tack board and not light up the panel, if say 2 lit and the rest read dead? Or is there a full lit LED that looks like all connections inside read good and that assumption? That full lit panel says to me the unit is self reading something in code and is not a useless 'Brick.'
My interpreter will be here shortly or not... hand swooshes over top of head smilie; for him too.
The 5 black wires; see the loop next to the BD logo? Follow that down to what looks like copper wire being exposed? Same wire; now look behind it and down some. See the white powder? Something etching off back there? Go up the black 5 wire harness and where the zip-tie is; count 3 wires over starting from the left side. See some sort of pinch on that one wire?
Just curious.
Just curious.
Mr. Wright
Knows some things
Wow, an original 04 EHC. You got your money worth out of that. Considering they were recalled back in 05. I've seen a couple come through my shop. Go ahead and get ahold of the Kaptin. He has the perfect replacement for it.
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Thx Rottweiler, interesting, they all flash at the same time once every second after the reboot.
You mean the previous owner got his money out of it. Thanks for the lead. I'm sure I'll be calling.
Mikeinjersey
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Before you call to get a new EHC spend some time to at least visually look for an issue with your wiring. The lights are indicating a short , an open or an over-current condition. Yes very unusual for all to be lit but maybe there is a common link to explain it. Definitely worth checking circuits out . First pull the battery and have it load tested. When you are certain the battery is good start isolating the the different circuits connected to the EHC. Where the Ehc connects to the battery (Pos and Neg) and also where the battery Neg side connects to the frame is the best place to start.
Also check the headlight. Does it have the h2 bulb or a L E D ? Does the head light come on?
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That's interesting you mentioned the headlight. That's the last thing I worked on. I will pull it asap and check the wires again.
knothead
Second Chance Customs
Look at those wires really really good in the headlight bucket....could be the smallest wear spot you could imagine....trust me....Eric and i where in sturgis last year and we looked multiple times at it and never saw it....then finally after the 6th or 7th time Eric spotted it on his bike...
Nothing out if the ordinary in the headlight. Strange, i've had the battery on the charger overnight and it's still not charged. I can't believe a battery would cause this. I cant find sheet on what a flashing ehc means. All leds flash including the green one on and off once a second.
Get it load tested. If bad get a Deka
Mr. Wright
Knows some things
A battery will most definitely do that. Put you a Deka battery in it. We're getting 5-7 years out of them. You can get them off Amazon, or a Harley battery is the same thing.
Mr. Wright
Knows some things
Are you saying , batteries are my pet peeve?
