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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bike electically dead - ideas?

danny318 said:
I'm starting to think you all might be right about the battery. It is the legendary Earth-X so thats why I am reluctant to believe it. Its probably only started the bike 50 times.

My other battery is dead, but I hooked up the charger in 'engine start' mode and the bike cranked over just fine, but did not start. But that it cranks over to me seems to mean that there is no ground or other electrical fault - do you all agree?

I'll pick up a spare battery to test this further and hopefully thats it, and from what I understand Earth-X has great support and warranty.
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Sounds like it mate.
Haven't seen the EarthX over here in Aus, but they seem well liked over there. Hopefully it's a one off & will be sorted.

When you have it running again, check the system is charging ok. Should be in the 13 to 14 v range running.
 
Thanks - we shall see tomorrow. I'm going to pick up a new battery and hopefully the bike fires up. I'll feel like I got off easy if that's how it goes.
 
I switched to the Shorai lithium for my '11 TE310 last year. It was awesome for a couple of months, then one day it just went dead overnight. Would no longer hold a charge at all. Shorai were great about warrantying it for me, so I popped in a new one, it was awesome for a couple of months, then one day it just went dead. I know these batteries work great in many applications, so I don't want to question the quality or technology, but at does seem like there's something about at least my 310 that eats lithium batteries for some reason. I know it gets smoking hot under the seat on a hard ride (I found some slight browning on my insurance papers one time when they were wedge up against the battery on a long highway ride), so I've speculated that it's just too hostile an environment for the electronics that are built into any lithium battery pack.

I switched back to the OEM or some equivalent lead acid and have had no further problems. Twice the weight, half the Ah capacity, but at least it goes dead in a predictable fashion, and recovers with a bump, jump, or trickle charge.

Good luck.
KF
 
It was the battery. Put a new one in and it started up no problem at all.

Thanks a lot for your support - made a relatively uncomfortable experience not so bad.
 
Likely a problem with the bms tripping out under load.

This is why ballistic's have no bms....but it could have saved you from a fire or other issue. Be interesting to hear what it was exactly.
 
EarthX is sending a new battery out no questions asked. :thumbsup:
They also said that they have updated the BMS system on the battery in the last year, so the new one should not suffer the same problem as the old one.
 
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