Electrical Problem?

[mkrieg]

I was out riding my scoot this afternoon and while sitting at a stop light, all of the lights and display on my radio started flashing, then the computer screen flashed a few times and the engine went dead. Any ideas on where I should start to look or what the problem may be. I dont want to be riding down the street and have the same thing happen again. When I turned the radio off and turned the ignition key a few times, everything came back.

[Venturous Randy]

Sounds very similar to what I am dealing with. I know my tach dropped instantly, even while I was going 30mph, but I am not real sure about the CMS screen. Hummm, that is something else to look for.

Read my thread on TCI as there is a lot of good information suggested.

Good luck and if you find anything, please share it.

RandyA

[93 venture]

I was out riding my scoot this afternoon and while sitting at a stop light, all of the lights and display on my radio started flashing, then the computer screen flashed a few times and the engine went dead. Any ideas on where I should start to look or what the problem may be. I dont want to be riding down the street and have the same thing happen again. When I turned the radio off and turned the ignition key a few times, everything came back.

 

You might want to check the key switch,sorta sounds like you maybe loosing key switch power,also do a check on all your main powers and grounds at battery and frame.

[calperin]

It sounds familiar to me. If you can, redo the soldier connectors behind the Tachmeter, or the instruments pannel. It seems that you have a false connection that make the radio or the instruments get crazy.

[fardnarger]

It happen to me Tuesday, It was a bad battery

[MiCarl]

If you still have the stock fuse panel take a very close look at it. Not unusual for the spring clips to be failing at this age.