The background: Bought this RT last fall. Got her up and running about a month ago.....WOW, what a great running bike! The Fairing is long gone, torn up by the previous owner and not even on the bike when I got it. It had a sort of butchered electrical system. Since the electrics normally included in the fairing were gone also, I had to sort of "clean up" the wiring harness. I re-did the wiring harness and was pretty thorough in finding faults and isolating circuits that were no longer used. I was able to find that the main "hot" wire to the key switch suffered some thermal damage. I had to unravel the wiring harness and replace that wire. (From memory) it appeared that at one time there was a problem with the headlight relay and the main hot wire melted some insulation along the length of the wire. Anyway, I pieced everything back together.
I've put about 800 miles on it, like I said, it runs great. The problem:
Haven't ridden it in a while because of the cold snap that everyone is going through. Came out to it two weeks ago, dead battery. Since I didn't know when the previous owner installed it, I went out and bought a new one. Rode it around...no problems. Came out to it a couple of days ago, dead battery. Not only that, it wouldn't recharge...deader than a stone. Bought a new battery today. Hooked up the positive and left the negative off. I checked the current draw and sure enough, it was drawing about 400 mili-amps with the key off.
I am going to dig into it fully tomorrow or the next day. I don't have any problems with checking the individual circuits. I know that the various lighting circuits draw about 5 or so amp and the ignition maybe about that much. What I'm wondering; does that 1/2 amp of parasitic current draw jog anyone's memory? Granted, it could be a funky wire with bad insulation but does anyone have an idea of a specific component that draws specifically that much current? How about the various relay's? I'm sure that I'll find it but it would be helpful if someone knew of something that drew that much current off of the top of your head. Thanks!
I've put about 800 miles on it, like I said, it runs great. The problem:
Haven't ridden it in a while because of the cold snap that everyone is going through. Came out to it two weeks ago, dead battery. Since I didn't know when the previous owner installed it, I went out and bought a new one. Rode it around...no problems. Came out to it a couple of days ago, dead battery. Not only that, it wouldn't recharge...deader than a stone. Bought a new battery today. Hooked up the positive and left the negative off. I checked the current draw and sure enough, it was drawing about 400 mili-amps with the key off.
I am going to dig into it fully tomorrow or the next day. I don't have any problems with checking the individual circuits. I know that the various lighting circuits draw about 5 or so amp and the ignition maybe about that much. What I'm wondering; does that 1/2 amp of parasitic current draw jog anyone's memory? Granted, it could be a funky wire with bad insulation but does anyone have an idea of a specific component that draws specifically that much current? How about the various relay's? I'm sure that I'll find it but it would be helpful if someone knew of something that drew that much current off of the top of your head. Thanks!