| Author | Message | ||
     Coastrambler |
Was rolling down the highway doing 85+ in 4th gear and feeling really fine. On my 1125R that is of course. A few things. It's got an electrical problem. The instrument panel will go dark, no turn sigs, if I leave Hi Beams on this doesn't happen. Tech says there's a ground problem up front, I'm going to drop it off early next month. Have about a thousand miles on my new tires. Metzler Z6's. I'm liking them. Good feel, work well in the rain too. I've got abt 200 rain miles on them now. This is 3rd set of tires now. Pirellis just too spendy and I don't need that much edge. Also found the transition from one zone to next not smooth. Will turn 18,000 on the odo tomorrow. I like my Zero Gravity Double Bubble wind screen. At 6'1" I don't tuck in behind stock screen. Am planning on getting Sidetrax 2" drop pegs. Have Firebolt 1" drop ones now. Did a 250 mile ride Tues to Sonoma for lunch. Mostly highway at 70-80, got 40.2mpg. | ||
| Coastrambler |
Oh yah, it's a 2009, black. The fastest color. | ||
| Jules |
I might be inclined to look for a faulty/failing VR or a bad earth/heat sink issue witht he VR mounting. If you check the voltages as you're riding along what does it go up to before the "blackout"? The fact that the additional load of high-beams seems to make it lightly better would (to me) indicate an overvoltage situation... the IC is designed to shut down to preserve itself when that happens.. It COULD be a bad earth, but then I don't think highbeams would do anything,,,well, OK they could give a secondary earth path back but it's more likely to be the VR (IMHO) | ||
| Rt_performance |
Voltage regulator over volts. Likely will burn out your head lights soon. if you set at idle for about 30 seconds it will finally get figured out and come back to life. Scroll to volts it will be about 16 and slowly drop to the 13-14 range. I had to call hd for mine since the dealer couldn't reproduce it. Have since installed the f00 regulator on my own dime |
