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no juice
Written by goldwingman40 on 11/30/2010 at 12:19 am

Joe,
How did you determin that the battery is fully charged? If you measured the
voltage with the ignition off then it might not be accurate. Measure the voltage
with the ignition switch off and then turn it on and see what it does. If you
have a broken inner cell connector you will read good voltage with no load but
when you turn on the ignition switch the voltage will go to almost zero. I had
this happen to me this spring. With the switch off it read 12.8 volts but when I
turned on the ignition switch it went to 0.25 volts. It faked me out because I
checked the no load voltage which looked OK and then spent about 2 hours
checking everything else and found nothing. I then did the above and found the
bad battery so either do that check or pull the battery and have it load
checked.
Fred



--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "wolfbear_1932" <wolfbear@...> wrote:
>
> Several days ago I turned the key in the ignition switch, the dash lights
flashed on and off, the radio made a bleep and the electricity disappeared.
>
> A friend and I have pulled off a lot of plastic body parts and found that the
battery is fully charged, the 30 amp fuse an the starter relay is odd and the 10
and 15 amp fuses in the fuse box behind the left front fairing area are all
good.
>
> We have traced a few wires with a volt meter and haven't found out where the
power stops.
>
> Can anyone out there make a suggestion on where to start tracing wires when we
have the shop manual and voltmeter probes in hand?
>
> The ignition switch is a bit suspect, but getting to it is like tonsillectomy
through the rectum. Re-installing or replacing it would be worse than that.
>
> I would trailer it to a nearby shop if I could figure out a way to avoid
breaking plastic parts on the handlebars. The shipper squirrel broke plastic
covers on the bars and bent the bars when he delivered the bike. I replaced the
bars since I couldn't straighten them. The electrical items on the bars don't
seem to be damaged, and I did get to ride the bike some.
>
> It's frustrating to have only been able to put about 50 miles on the old bike
since I bought it several months ago.
>
> I will appreciate your ideas.
>
> Joe
> Canyon Lake, TX
>
> Re there any other PC800 riders in my area?
>