battery icon

[reddevilmedic]

wheres the thread on how to make a lead so the battery icon will go out. damn flashing light driving me nuts. thanks in advance, remember, im no electrical genius.

[Prairiehammer]

The write up is in the Technical Library.

 

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=489

[dingy]

wheres the thread on how to make a lead so the battery icon will go out. damn flashing light driving me nuts. thanks in advance, remember, im no electrical genius.

A 1.2K ~2K ohm resistor from 12v+ to the White with red tracer wire that the old sensor attached to.

 

Reason for the resistor is that the plug for the original sensor was at the midpoint of the battery, so it saw in range of 6-7v. This is what the circuitry in CMU was designed to be triggered at. If full battery voltage is applied to the input circuit bad things happen and it lets a little smoke out, never to work again. The resistor drops the voltage into the expected range, clears the CMU icon, and clears the red warning light.

 

I needed to replace it due to a break at the resistor in what is in Tweety. I put a 1K and a 470 in series and it is working fine.

 

Resistors are very cheap, radio shack is a good place to get them.

 

Skydoc also sells a harness to fix this in classifieds.

 

http://www.venturerider.org/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=3766&title=first-genbattery-icon-bypass-lead-kit-21&cat=22

 

Gary

[Peder_y2k]

QUESTION: My '88VR has no in-battery sensor (removed), and the battery related warning flasher does not blink, remains on steady. Is this non-blinking normal? The others blink accordingly.

-Pete, in Tacoma WA USA

[reddevilmedic]

the icon stays on, but the red light flashes warning....

[dingy]

I think the blinking ceases after about a minute. That's what mine does when fuel hits low warning.

 

Gary

[reddevilmedic]

mine blinks all the damn time!