Qwapy
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We were able to isolate the problem: • It was not the battery • Nor the stator • Nor the rectifier
It is a short on the tail light (that we had just replaced earlier).
When we connected the battery the bike still had no power so, we checked the fuses and one of them was blown. Put a new fuse and the bike started right away, no problem. Still, something must have blown that fuse, correct? We checked the lights, turning signals, horn, etc, etc and everything seems to be in order. We pressed the brake pedal and Viola! The fuse popped.
We started to trace back what we had done earlier in the day
We had replaced the stock tail light for a cat’s eye tail light (see picture).
When we were installing the new tail light we noticed that the new tail light only had two cables instead of three cables like the stock light (light, brake light, and ground). So we swapped the light bulb socket from the stock light for the new tail light. We tested and it worked fine, we were still using the original cables and connectors. Everything worked: lights, brake lights, etc. So, I returned home via the HW and that’s was the story I was telling when I started this discussion.
We have not been able to find where the short is occurring, every time we press the brake or step on the pedal, the fuse pops. Now, I was able to ride until I got in the HW with no problem (I used the brake a few times here and there) the problem started when I was exiting the HW and the lights deemed and then the bike died (now, we know why it died, the fuse)
We are baffled; we are using the original light bulb socket with the original three cable connections, why the fuse gets blown?
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