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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Clicking while charging '13 TE 310 on bike solved!

Johnrg

Johnrg

Husqvarna
Pro Class
As some may remember way back I did some charging testing and found charging the battery on the bike, a clicking noise would occur as battery was almost fully charged. It would click more rapidly with the LI battery and seemed to be cycling a relay and priming the fuel. I had been using the old standard Battery Tender jr. Nobody seemed to be forthcoming with a reason or answer as to why since 2013, so I advised to always remove the battery to charge for safety reasons.

View: https://youtu.be/DYS1RBrnDE4


Recently decided to get a second unit to charge a few vehicles in the garage including those with LI batteries. The Battery Junior 800 has ability to switch between lead acid and LI (manual button you switch before connecting to bike) and while supposedly not for sale in CA, I bought from Amazon.

I am sitting in my garage with the bike hooked up and battery reading fully charged and no clicking noises at all. I would still only charge on the bike when you can monitor it but the Battery Tender Junior 800 appears a good buy.

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Are you very sure the clicking and the whine wasn't coming from the battery charger ? Because most smart chargers do that ...
 
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