Wiring/Starting Issue

[k9bdm]

Upon removing the wiring covers I found (2) wires (+) (-) with a 7.5 amp fuse attached coming from the battery. Never heard of a 7.5 fuse being needed, maybe an old alarm/GPS the previous owner had installed. Now that I'm having issues getting the bike to start I was wondering if this is playing an issue. Wires were ran towards the belt drive, but can't find where they would connect. There is no connector on the end of the wires they look like they were cut/pulled apart. 08' K9 non EFI.

You guys/gals have always helped me out on here a lot. The starting issues are bike tries to turn over then compression relief kicks in then the bike just dies out before it fully turns over. Around 13v on battery. Is it the EHC or the PCB board, something along those lines? Thanks

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

Sounds like a bad battery to me.

 

[shansel88]

I would have the battery tested- Likely just low cranking amps - Can also verify this by connecting jumper cable to car battery - DO NOT START THE CAR - just connect jumpers to battery of non-running car and try and start bike. If it turns over normal - then battery in the bike is weak and there are no other issues- that's my opinion for starting point

 

[k9bdm]

Yep bad battery, i'm stupid lol. To me the voltage seemed alright ,testing it but i jumped it off and it wanted to crank. The wire with the 7.5 fuse was an old battery tender that must of just been snipped out. Thanks for the help guys

 

[lonerider101]

A bad(shorted) battery may show full voltage sitting, but under a load voltage will drop. Learned the hard way to put volt/ammeter on battery & hit starter button to see if voltage drops - this lesson was learned on a new high amp battery & even went to the extent of rebuilding the starter before trying battery with a load. Good luck.