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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Shorai Customer Service = Awesome!

Phoenix

Phoenix

Husqvarna
AA Class
Over the past year, I have bought two Shorai batteries - a LFX09 and a LFX14 from sponsoring vendor BRPMoto (also awesome). To keep the story fairly short, they both became victims of me leaving my 2010 TXC 250 "on." The first time, I realized it after only a couple of hours, so the LFX14 battery wasn't dead and I swapped it with the LFX09 in the TXC 450. Though the 450 runs with it in there, it seemed weak and never really recharged. Well I did it again with the other battery, but this time bled it dry. I bought a Shorai charger, hoping to breathe some life back into the batteries, but I found that neither of them would charge! Both had corroded pins in the charging port and the not-completely-dead battery had a pin that had broken off.

Neither battery was very old, so I was disappointed to find the corrosion in the charging terminal. Despite the corroded terminals, the problem started because the bike was left on. I wrote to Shorai about both batteries, and to my surprise and excitement I received two shipping notifications that new batteries were on the way! Not only are they sending new batteries, they are upgrading the LFX09 to a LFX14. Very cool.

So, I already liked the batteries and now I really like the company as well. If you have a Shorai battery, I would definitely recommend that you open the little charging terminal rubber flap and squirt some dialectic grease in there to keep the water out.

Now I just need to rig an alarm to tell me I have left my bike on. lol.
 
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