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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

te 511

Im not understanding what you are asking. Is your mileage counter resetting after you leave the bike alone for a long time with out starting?
 
I have never had that problem but its always on a trickle charger so the computers battery doesn't drop below a certain voltage. Just from what I can think of off the top of my head that could be it.
 
Hi from the uk, yes my 2011 also does this during a ride, no battery problems or otherwise, just the trip meter returns to zero most full day rides. Is this maybe a common problem that no one posts about? Annoying all the same!! Anyone have a fix? Regards nige
 
Whenever I have a hard start where the engine coughs but does not start, the trip meter resets. very annoying and makes the trip meter useless. I just use my gps
 
I had this problem. I traced it to the 30 amp fuse holder. The fuse holder was making intermittent connection to the fuse. It had arced so much that the fuse had a groove cut into the blade of the fuse. I tweaked the fuse holder so it would make better contact and used a new fuse coated with T&B copper kote (on the blades of the fuse) to enhance the connection. After this treatment the trip meter has been rock solid and the bike starts better. I hope this helps.
 
Bryce said:
Whenever I have a hard start where the engine coughs but does not start, the trip meter resets. very annoying and makes the trip meter useless. I just use my gps
Click to expand...


Mine did the exact same thing - on every compression induced fail to start, everything on the computer would reset except the full odo - clock, trips, etc.. Really a PITA.

Since I moved to set 3 I have not had a single flameout which means no hard starts so far - I believe ALL of my fail to starts came right after a flameout.
 
Hi again, thanks for the tip, checked starter solenoid and fuses, all clean with good tight contacts, I can also confirm lower fuse is indeed a spare. No problems there then, I guess the trip etc will still reset after a difficult/ slow start, drawing lots of amps and lowering the system voltage. It does it with the o/ e battery fitted or a high power light weight I also fitted.Any further help out there? Cheers Nigel.
 
I increased the battery and starter wire size to 8 gauge. This changed the problem from often to occasionally. I am still working on the problem. I will post any positive results.
 
Did you do the ground too? I cant off the top of my head recall if the ground is a small gauge coated, or a hugo braided job. I have too many bikes (yikes I just typed that)!

If I get ANY compression induced starts after getting my EarthX I will go this same route.

For those that have suffered from compression induced starts, did they go away with time. I finally fel that my motor is starting to loosen up a bit - it is definitively growing in power. I think I have had just one that was not a flameout - i stalled the bike (bad clutching on a tree) and it took four clicks of the starter to break the lock. Both wheels were off the ground so rocking the bike was not an option.

The stories I have read on the EarthX makes me think it has so much CCA that these may vanish alltogether.
 
Mine did it everyime it stalled out (only maybe 1-2 times a ride). with the power commander and zipty full map yesterday, I did not get a single stall. (yay).

I know what you mean, when you go to restart it just doesn't crank for a second then goes. Battery voltage drops low and causes the trip meter to reset?
 
Sometimes the stock 6Ah battery can't run the fuel pump, electronics, lights and crank the engine over. When the voltage drops, the fuel pump pressure drops and draws even higher current. I run even higher compression than stock and the OEM battery left me stranded when it was really hot.
 
huskylove said:
Mine did it everyime it stalled out (only maybe 1-2 times a ride). with the power commander and zipty full map yesterday, I did not get a single stall. (yay).

I know what you mean, when you go to restart it just doesn't crank for a second then goes. Battery voltage drops low and causes the trip meter to reset?
Click to expand...


Yeah, spot on to what mine did.

The map 3 seems to have made the flameouts totally vanish. With an EarthX battery on its way I hope to have this little bugger 100% trail ready as soon as the snow melts!
 
I have solved the trip meter reset problem on my 2012 TE-449. Every time the starter would stall causing the 12 volt supply to drop below the reset point the trip meter would reset to zero

The first thing I did was increase the battery and starter wires to 8 gage ( both supply and ground) and installed a lithium battery. This helped but was not the fix, the starter didn't stall as often.

Now I have installed a diode in the 12 volt supply to the dash unit. The diode allows the 12 volts to inter the meter but prevents it from back feeding when the input goes low. Also I installed a 100 MFD capacitor on the meter side of the diode to the ground wire This capacitor charges up and supplies the power to the meter when the battery supply goes low. This has completely eliminated the reset problem. I installed these components in the pigtail that goes into the dash unit and covered then in hear shrink and tape. The diode goes inline of the "12 volts from battery" lead, pin one(1) on my dash unit. the ground is on pin two(2)of the unit.

Also I have replaced the lithium battery with a fresh lead acid battery and the starter has not stalled since. Or should I say yet.




 
Radar said:
I have solved the trip meter reset problem on my 2012 TE-449. Every time the starter would stall causing the 12 volt supply to drop below the reset point the trip meter would reset to zero

The first thing I did was increase the battery and starter wires to 8 gage ( both supply and ground) and installed a lithium battery. This helped but was not the fix, the starter didn't stall as often.

Now I have installed a diode in the 12 volt supply to the dash unit. The diode allows the 12 volts to inter the meter but prevents it from back feeding when the input goes low. Also I installed a 100 MFD capacitor on the meter side of the diode to the ground wire This capacitor charges up and supplies the power to the meter when the battery supply goes low. This has completely eliminated the reset problem. I installed these components in the pigtail that goes into the dash unit and covered then in hear shrink and tape. The diode goes inline of the "12 volts from battery" lead, pin one(1) on my dash unit. the ground is on pin two(2)of the unit.

Also I have replaced the lithium battery with a fresh lead acid battery and the starter has not stalled since. Or should I say yet.
Click to expand...


Off to the Shack - I love soldering projects!
 
So the diode is inline on the 12v supply line, and the capacitor jumps across the from supply to the ground - is that right ?
 
danny318 said:
So the diode is inline on the 12v supply line, and the capacitor jumps across the from supply to the ground - is that right ?
Click to expand...


Yes the diode is inline with the supply.The cap goes from the load side or meter side of the diode to ground.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top