What did you do with your XS today?

[CaptChrome]

I just reached a milestone (for me at least) on my most recent ride. I looked down when I was on the ride and had to pull over because I had ridden more miles on Trusty Rusty than all of the other owners combined. And there will certainly be more to follow.

 

[SoulMan]

Nice!

 

[DNAPrototypeX]

Last weekend I continued plugging away at creating my custom wiring harness:

And also made this little abomination:

It's a garage door opener with the button removed and replaced with a wire, and the battery replaced with a 12v to 3v step-down converter. The plan is to wire it into the AUX1 output of the mo.unit, which is controlled by a push button on the right handle bar. Every one of my bikes has had a handlebar mounted garage door button of some kind, but this is the first to get one that will never need its battery replaced...

 

[SoulMan]

Last weekend I continued plugging away at creating my custom wiring harness:

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And also made this little abomination:

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It's a garage door opener with the button removed and replaced with a wire, and the battery replaced with a 12v to 3v step-down converter. The plan is to wire it into the AUX1 output of the mo.unit, which is controlled by a push button on the right handle bar. Every one of my bikes has had a handlebar mounted garage door button of some kind, but this is the first to get one that will never need its battery replaced...

This is awesome and a great idea.

 

[CaptChrome]

I was riding on some nice two lane when Trusty Rusty just shut down. I pulled in the clutch and managed to coast the bike off of the road and into the shade of some trees. A bit of head scratching ensued. Pressing the e-start resulted in nothing but quiet, so something electrical was amiss. Kicking the bike showed good compression, but no start. I opened the fuel tank and it was half full as it should have been. I pulled all of the fuses and none looked blown. So I resigned myself that I would have to do some deeper electrical troubleshooting on the side of the road.

I do have a small test light in my tool roll as well as a copy of Trusty Rusty's electrical diagram, so armed with those, I started at the beginning. Testing across the battery looked good, so I moved on to the fuse box and checked for power on both sides of each fuse. Lo and behold, the ignition fuse only had power on one side - I was not expecting that! The fuse looked fine, but it must have some internal contact issue that isn't visible. I had a full set of spare fuses with me, so Trusty Rusty was back in action once I replaced the ignition fuse.

Here is a picture of the problem fuse on the bench after I got home - looks like a good fuse, but it is an open circuit when checked with an ohm meter. This was not some no-name fuse either, it was made in Japan by Pacific Engineering Corporation. Live and learn.

 

[lemonhead]

I was riding on some nice two lane when Trusty Rusty just shut down. I pulled in the clutch and managed to coast the bike off of the road and into the shade of some trees. A bit of head scratching ensued. Pressing the e-start resulted in nothing but quiet, so...

I had the same issue once, but with glass tubes. Ignition fuse looked good and intact until I popped it out and realized the end cap of the fuse was what blew.

 

[ElementalWarrior]

I took mom's special out to Mission BC

 

[SoulMan]

I was riding on some nice two lane when Trusty Rusty just shut down. I pulled in the clutch and managed to coast the bike off of the road and into the shade of some trees. A bit of head scratching ensued. Pressing the e-start resulted in nothing but quiet, so something electrical was amiss. Kicking the bike showed good compression, but no start. I opened the fuel tank and it was half full as it should have been. I pulled all of the fuses and none looked blown. So I resigned myself that I would have to do some deeper electrical troubleshooting on the side of the road.

I do have a small test light in my tool roll as well as a copy of Trusty Rusty's electrical diagram, so armed with those, I started at the beginning. Testing across the battery looked good, so I moved on to the fuse box and checked for power on both sides of each fuse. Lo and behold, the ignition fuse only had power on one side - I was not expecting that! The fuse looked fine, but it must have some internal contact issue that isn't visible. I had a full set of spare fuses with me, so Trusty Rusty was back in action once I replaced the ignition fuse.

Here is a picture of the problem fuse on the bench after I got home - looks like a good fuse, but it is an open circuit when checked with an ohm meter. This was not some no-name fuse either, it was made in Japan by Pacific Engineering Corporation. Live and learn.
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Luckily you had spares and the tester. Great idea. Now you have me looking for a small inexpensive probe