• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

2005 TE450 Stator/Electrical Help

T

The Mayor

Husqvarna
Hello!

Looking for a little help with my 2005 TE450. It has a stock wiring harness, came with no key/enduro kit. I've added a Baja Designs Squadron Sport headlight (26 watts) and TrailTech gauge. I'm using the Baja Designs AC/DC converter (https://www.bajadesigns.com/products/AC-DC-Converter.asp).

The converter has 2 inputs (yellow/white) that are not polarity sensitive, and then two outputs (red/black). Hooks up and seems to work fine, with a significant reduction in flicker.

However, the light noticeably dims as RPMs increase... which if anything is the opposite of what I'd expect. I had also hooked up the lead for the TrailTech to this DC circuit (I thought it said it could it could wired to AC, but the backlight and RPM sensor were acting oddly when it as). RPM sensor works as expected now, but the backlight dims along with the headlight as RPMs increase.

So... I'm I doing it wrong? What would cause that or what should I be looking for? For reference, we just hooked up an cheap LED headlight to a 2004 XR400, converting the headlight lead from AC to DC using a cheap rectifier/regulator and an inline capacitor, and it works with zero flicker or dimming.

Thanks in advance!
 
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