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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Weird charging issue...

darkstarmoto

darkstarmoto

Husqvarna
A Class
So I have a decent USB cable direct wired to the battery to run my GPS & charge my Iphone. Over this weekend I was running some slow single track in mid-state PA and the temps were mild/warm. I got some kinda "overcharging" warning on the phone and the GPS went into boot mode but would not go to map. I suspected maybe the splitter I was using or the USB cable. Checked the battery when I got home with bike running and was getting 14.7V pretty constant regardless of RPM. Battery with engine off was holding at 12.6V. End of USB cable showed 5.2V with engine running and at each outlet of splitter also showing same voltage 5.2V.

I'm kinda at a loss because all voltages are in spec and sitting in garage both the phone & GPS are now fine.

Is it possible if the voltage regulator/rectifier gets too hot it would allow more voltage to pass? I did have a set of saddle bags draped over the seat resting on that plastic panel, but not necessarily blocking the one vent to allow air to the reg.

EDIT: Since I saw it in other posts, my headlight isn't out and I'm running a 45W bulb. No real noticeable difference in voltage at battery in Low or High beam.
 
darkstarmoto said:
....Is it possible if the voltage regulator/rectifier gets too hot it would allow more voltage to pass? I did have a set of saddle bags draped over the seat resting on that plastic panel, but not necessarily blocking the one vent to allow air to the reg.
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Given those cooling fins on the voltage regulator, I would image that the VR would not like getting too hot, that's why they manufactured it with those colling fins, I think:thinking:
 
Agreed...but I'm not 100% sure it was too hot...the vent in the plastics was exposed. I'm double checking the ground tonight...anyone know if that was intermittent if it would pass higher voltage or would it simply not work?
 
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