• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

'13 TXC 310 Smoking Battery

endurokids

endurokids

Husqvarna
AA Class
My son rode the bike for 2 - 6.5 mile laps and it quit.
We pulled the seat off and the battery was hot, smoking and whistling.
Upon inspection, the sides of the battery were bulged and not flat anymore.
We purchased the bike in November, and we have 2 hours total time on the bike.
We suspect the voltage regulator as it was charging at a rate on 14.9 while reving and fully charged battery.
Anyone else have this?
 
I don't know if 14.9v is high enought to fry a battery....it sounds a litte high.

I know my bike charges up in the 14V+ range when running.

Might just be a bad battery.
 
The symptoms sure sound like an over-charge situation (same thing happened to a buddy on his KTM 950r). I would definitely replace the regulator along with the battery.
 
Mid 14's are where it should be when charging. The stator will put out in excess of 30 volts unregulated and thats for sure a problem. Get a meter and see whats going on before replacing the bat.
 
I pulled the seat off of my 310 and noticed the battery was bouncing on the metal bridge connector that holds the seat. Make sure your battery is secure. From what you have described, this is probably not the issue, but wanted to give you a heads up.
 
Thanks to all. We are taking it in to our dealer tomorrow and having him check it out.
The battery has held a charge so far, but I don't trust it anymore.
We can't have issues during a race, so better safe than sorry.
I guess we will see how good the "new people" are at fixing it under warranty.
I know that the 3 months are up, but we only have 2 hours ride time on it.
 
I would replace the battery and test the voltage with the bike running, it could be at 14.9 but hitting much higher peak voltage (when revved up high possibly) that the meter cannot react fast enough to show...
 
Not a cheap meter. It is actually quite common unless you buy a quality voltmeter. I have just tested this last week with a ex500, battery voltage was fine but was getting instantaneous spikes that the guys harbor freight cen-tech meter could not pickup. My fluke was showing spikes up to 40v, replaced reg/rec and the bike was good to go!

Its rare, but definitely possible. Just giving possibilities.
 
I find the voltages are highest at idle.

For whatever reason whenever I rev a bike the voltage drops a little.
 
Also it is possible that the battery sat dead at the dealer for extended amount of time, then was recharged and sold has a higher internal resistance and cannot accept a full charge, thus gets hot/swells/steams from the acid boiling...
 
R_Little said:
I find the voltages are highest at idle.

For whatever reason whenever I rev a bike the voltage drops a little.
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From what I understand, that is a normal operation for a rectifier. At higher RPM's the voltage will drop off a bit and be highest at idle. At least the previous bikes I owned did that. The rectifier dumps excess unneeded voltage to the ground/frame so check that connection as well.
 
R_Little said:
I find the voltages are highest at idle.

For whatever reason whenever I rev a bike the voltage drops a little.
Click to expand...

It only does what you said above if your VR (voltage regulator / rectifier) is working properly. If your VR is not working voltage will climb with revs.
 
Mystery solved.
The positive battery cable had rubbed thru the insulation and was grounding out on the frame.
The odd thing was that while inspecting the wire strands that were exposed, they had green corrosion inside the insulation.
I'm replacing the battery and we are going to race it this weekend.
 
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