Blackshear
1st April 2012, 12:13
Read the sticky, or more or less got to point 3 and started skimming.
So firstly: The last thing I've done to my bike electrically other than a new motobatt battery 6 months ago is replace the spark plug leads and carbon grease the plug caps and the wire-thingies-to-the-spark-leads-box (Step-up transformer?) last week. The old leads read Suzuki 1990. I figured I'd start with an easy gremlin being the mysterious 1st cylinder getting no power when it rains. So far, so good. Even feels like it pulls stronger around the 13-16k region.
But then there's the hard one.
Intermittently, maybe once a month or once a week, my GSF250 sits with the ignition on but nobody is home and a punch around the battery/fusebox seemed to help (Half of the time) sort things out.
But then I noticed that my dash and headlights seemed far dimmer than when I first installed the battery 6 months ago, they're almost blank in the sun. If my memory wasn't to be trusted, it's confirmed that upon starting the bike there's suddenly double the dash juice, so I figured an investigation would fix it. I started checking all of my leads for possible cuts or corrosion, most connections were quite clean or otherwise clean enough to dismiss until I came across the fuse box. Look at this bad boy.
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Obviously, it was quite warm to the touch.
So, I ask this: Why is it very hot and what will fix this? I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume there could be a short somewhere in that box, which would explain the drowsy current in the morning so maybe condensation (and rain) would have something to do with it. I couldn't see or smell anything, nor any liquids other than the CRC I blasted in there yesterday.
TL;DR
My 25A fuse that has my balls in a vice is getting extremely hot
It is intermittent - but obviously an issue at all times
Occurs predominantly overnight, however I was stranded for 5 minutes at the supermarket this morning, which is new.
Apologies for the length, hopefully it's not a horrible waffle to information ratio.
So firstly: The last thing I've done to my bike electrically other than a new motobatt battery 6 months ago is replace the spark plug leads and carbon grease the plug caps and the wire-thingies-to-the-spark-leads-box (Step-up transformer?) last week. The old leads read Suzuki 1990. I figured I'd start with an easy gremlin being the mysterious 1st cylinder getting no power when it rains. So far, so good. Even feels like it pulls stronger around the 13-16k region.
But then there's the hard one.
Intermittently, maybe once a month or once a week, my GSF250 sits with the ignition on but nobody is home and a punch around the battery/fusebox seemed to help (Half of the time) sort things out.
But then I noticed that my dash and headlights seemed far dimmer than when I first installed the battery 6 months ago, they're almost blank in the sun. If my memory wasn't to be trusted, it's confirmed that upon starting the bike there's suddenly double the dash juice, so I figured an investigation would fix it. I started checking all of my leads for possible cuts or corrosion, most connections were quite clean or otherwise clean enough to dismiss until I came across the fuse box. Look at this bad boy.
261032
Obviously, it was quite warm to the touch.
So, I ask this: Why is it very hot and what will fix this? I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume there could be a short somewhere in that box, which would explain the drowsy current in the morning so maybe condensation (and rain) would have something to do with it. I couldn't see or smell anything, nor any liquids other than the CRC I blasted in there yesterday.
TL;DR
My 25A fuse that has my balls in a vice is getting extremely hot
It is intermittent - but obviously an issue at all times
Occurs predominantly overnight, however I was stranded for 5 minutes at the supermarket this morning, which is new.
Apologies for the length, hopefully it's not a horrible waffle to information ratio.