Won't Start? Electrical.

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haze324

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I hit the start button, the starter starts to turn, the bike does not turn over then after 2-3 seconds the speedo goes dead and all I hear is the relay clicking.

Yesterday I changed out some grips and shined up the bike well. I disconnected the speedo and dash, put everthing back together went to start and had some odd lights turn on, on my dash. Turns out I had connected it upside down. Re-connected it and i was good to go. Got home, turn the bike off and the above happend. I checked the batter and saw the negative terminal was a bit loose and there had been a short. The washer behind the bolt was a bit burnt and so was one of the connections. You can see it below. I charged the battery, got new bolts and after charging I was good to go. Woke up this morning rode for about 20 minutes, came back home went to take off again and the samething happend.

I thought maybe the battery had gone bad and was not holding a charge. I just tried another battery and my original had been charging all day. Nothing. I checked to see if any grounds were loose. All was good.

Don't know what causes the bike to stop the starter from spinning, shut down the speedo and then just click at the relay. The top little black box with lights on my battery lights up green when as the relay clicks. No red lights however.

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Nomad2day

Nomad2day

Longhair Redneck Geek
When you make the connections on the battery, the main ground cable and the main hot cable the two biggest cables should be right behind the mounting bolt head and washer. This will keep the other connectors from rotating when you tighten the bolts down and everything stays where you point them. If the smaller connectors are allowed to rotate, it pulls the wires out of the ring terminal or causes them to break from side load giving you all kinds of electrical gremlins. I have found my ground wire for my ehc broke at the connector due to it rotating.
This also will help keep the mounting bolts from loosing up on you.
 
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haze324

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yeah I saw that post a recently and have been setting up my wires like that. This was a shot taken with a second battery and I quickly put it together to see if it would crank and it didn't it. Just went out and checked the connections at the EHC and still nothing. Starter turns for 2-3 seconds, no sparks at the plugs and then everything goes dead. Lights, speedo, etc.

don't think its the battery, wondering if its the module on top of the battery and if for some reason if it sends a signal to the EHC to kill the bike if it can't start?
 
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haze324

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So, turns out when I replaced my grips - I ended up crimping and shorting one of the wires on my hand control. I took them apart and cranked the bike with the controls open and it cranked it right away!!!
 
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Gas Man

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Was there any permanant wear to those wires? If so were you able to fix them good?
 
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haze324

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Gas Man said:
Was there any permanant wear to those wires? If so were you able to fix them good?
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Two of the wires had a small tear in them, no damage to the actual wires. The rubber sleeve around them was also a bit torn. I currently have them individually taped up and then as a group re-taped with electrical tape. I think this will hold up as the tear was where the wire wraps around the bar, so I'm thinking the bar will hold the tape in place. Soon hopefully I plan on shrink wrapping my connections and when I do the whole bike I'll do a more permanant fix to the wires.

I'm just happy it wasn't anything serious. As soon as something electrical happens I start thinking of the worse and WHERE the hell could the problem be. Luckily I haven't really had any issues with my dog and this was an easy one. Thanks again guys :2thumbs:
 
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