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norm92de Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1180 El Paso TX Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #30 - 11/29/17 at 10:18:15 Did the guy use wire nuts to connect the battery? It looks something like that.
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Reply #31 - 11/29/17 at 10:55:06

I'm not too sure of what I'm looking at with the battery photo. There should be a positive cable that goes to the starter and a positive wire that connects to the harness, and a negative cable that grounds to the frame (or is the engine) and a negative wire that connects to the harness.

Do you have an extra set of wires that had were just striped bare and left like that? If that's the case, the previous owner was a moron. Id be very suspect of any maintenance he performed.

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Reply #32 - 11/29/17 at 13:25:16

Update!

So thanks to Batman, I’m assuming those are pigtails. I popped the battery back in, hooked it up, pulled the choke and did F-I-N-E and it started right up!

New problem Angry

Engine came to a stop with choke pulled. Nothing new there. Pushed the choke in (= no choke) and tried again to start it up. No start. Now I’m getting the dreaded “no start, clicking noise” I’ve read so much about. Threw the multimeter on the battery, still showing 11.45V. Is this now a replace the battery issue or a starter issue?

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bobert_FSO Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 419 Wichita KS Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #33 - 11/29/17 at 13:35:56 That battery is toast. The PO probably pulled it off a charge 10 minutes before you came to look at the bike.
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batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #34 - 11/29/17 at 13:38:08 Either you didn't run long enough to recharge the battery (but you should be able to start several times on the battery if the motor is warm) but you should brake down and get a new one,(so the bike won't leave you far from home)that's what I'd do. Peace of mind is worth the price of a battery.
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DAldrich2516 YaBB Newbies Offline Motorcycle Apprentice Posts: 16 Connecticut Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #35 - 11/29/17 at 13:43:18 That’s what I was figuring. I’ll see if I can get a new one tomorrow, and let you know the results. Thank you again for the patience and help. Much appreciated from a rookie.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28752 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #36 - 11/29/17 at 13:58:07 I believe the hook up wire on the battery are #8 or #10.
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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2625 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #37 - 11/29/17 at 13:59:04 bobert_FSO wrote on 11/29/17 at 13:35:56: That battery is toast. The PO probably pulled it off a charge 10 minutes before you came to look at the bike. Agreed.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #38 - 11/29/17 at 14:23:44 You're ahead. Now you can get a good one and not be surprised when it won't start in a month.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #39 - 11/29/17 at 15:12:42 Is that a SS record ? 3 pages for a dead battery !
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #40 - 11/29/17 at 15:14:18 Wait I jumped the gun , it ain't runnin yet !
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Reply #41 - 11/30/17 at 10:45:04

Ruttly wrote on 11/29/17 at 15:12:42:
Is that a SS record ?

3 pages for a dead battery !

Be easy on the new member...although he did qualify himself as being an engineer. I'm assuming he's an ME, not an EE. I believe this would be a classic example of Occam's razor; "among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected" - or - start with the simple solution first.

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Re: Need help with wiring for battery
Reply #42 - 11/30/17 at 10:55:40

Gary_in_NJ wrote on 11/30/17 at 10:45:04:

Ruttly wrote on 11/29/17 at 15:12:42:
Is that a SS record ?

3 pages for a dead battery !

Be easy on the new member...although he did qualify himself as being an engineer. I'm assuming he's an ME, not an EE. I believe this would be a classic example of Occam's razor; "among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected" - or - start with the simple solution first.

These types of threads also generate a whole bunch of gems of knowledge for those of us who read along

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DAldrich2516 YaBB Newbies Offline Motorcycle Apprentice Posts: 16 Connecticut Gender:	Re: Need help with wiring for battery Reply #43 - 11/30/17 at 11:02:00 Like I said, let the jokes fly. I laid it out in the first post lol, and yup, I'm an ME. No use in getting butthurt in front of a group of bikers.
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Reply #44 - 11/30/17 at 11:41:30

DAldrich2516 wrote on 11/30/17 at 11:02:00:
Like I said, let the jokes fly. I laid it out in the first post lol, and yup, I'm an ME. No use in getting butthurt in front of a group of bikers.

Dude, I did the same exact thing once. I have installed probably a dozen aftermarket stereo's in cars though the years. A few years back I bought a head unit with GPS and all of the bells and whistles for my son's first car. The plan was to use the existing OEM amps already installed. I got the thing, made a conversion harness on the bench, checked continuity and hooked it all up. The unit was getting power, but no sound. I rechecked my work a over and over, Finally I called Cruchfield (great company BTW) to get an RMA, because obviously this thing was defective.

They put me through to tech support. I told the guy "I don't need tech support. I'm a friggin' engineer - I'm sure I can handle a simple radio installation". He says "tell me about your wire harness". So I run through it all. He says "sounds right, but you didn't mention the blue automatic antenna wire." "The car doesn't have a retractable antenna" I told him. His reply was classic - "well, if you read the instructions Mr. Engineer, you would have discovered that the blue wire is used to turn-on the OEM amp." The silence on my end was deafening. I hated that guy, and loved him at the same time.

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