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Guys, I never followed through with this thread, but the other battery thread has got me thinking. This is what happened, I had this bike since new when I bought it in the summer of 2016. I had almost immediately replaced the stock battery with a Yuasa AMG battery, and it has been working flawless for all these years.
So on the day when it died, I went for a ride, and everything seemed absolute normal. The bike cranked strong and started right away, and was running absolutely fine. All the electrical systems, headlights, turn signals, etc were working as designed.
I was only riding maybe 20-30 minutes for some errands, and then I was stopped at a red light, and the bike has completely died. It was running great one moment, and the next moment it stopped, and all systems were completely dead. Turning the ignition key did nothing - the headlight was off, no brake light, no crank, nothing.
I had it picked up and brought to a repair shop, and the first thing the guy did is test the battery and determine that it was completely discharged, and would not hold a charge. He replaced the battery, and right away all electrical systems came back alive, there were no blown fuses or anything, but the bike would no crank. He determined the started was dead and replaced it, and the bike started.
He tested it several times, bike seemed to start and run fine, but he said once when he turned the ignition key, the neutral light was very dim and the bike would not crank. Turned it off and back on, and everything was back to normal.
Then we discovered that my headlight was stuck on high beam, and front right turn signal wasn't working. Got a replacement (used) switch, and now everything is fine.
Does anyone have any idea what could've happened? Could the AGM battery have suddenly died, causing a voltage spike that killed the starter and the switch? Or maybe a short within the switch caused the battery and started malfunction?
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