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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

LED headlight and regulator voltage

S

SMR510 Rider

Husqvarna
B Class
I have a 2007 SMR 510 Euro 3 bike. I recently dunked my bike in a river during a river crossing. The headlight bulb exploded. I thought it was just because of the cold water, or something. Installed and LED bulb and it cuts out when I give it throttle. I checked the battery voltage and it's going up to 14.8 volts. I think the LED has a safety that's turning it off so it doesn't get damaged.

I've heard people say that it uses the resistance across the bulb to regulate the voltage. LED lights have way less resistance than regular bulbs. Anyone tried an LED light and had this happen? I'm going to go buy a regular bulb and try it. If it's still putting out 14.8 volts then I've gotta change the regulator.
 
I just plugged my old headlight back in and it still goes up to 14.7 volts. I think I fried the regulator when I dunked it in the river.
 
14.8 volts is not too high, certainly not high enough to cause problems. General rule - below 15v is ok. My bike (SWM 500) runs at 14.8v.
If the globe actually exploded (glass shattered) its more likely the cold water hitting hot glass, not a voltage issue.
Check the led rated voltage range.
 
Sounds like you have a high resistance to ground somewhere. Clean and lube all of your connections (dielectric grease or wd40).
 
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