No aftermarket alarm etc. No voltage at all to supply to tank. Nothing. No 2 second spike. Cables proved to ground and to relay from tank connections. Tank primes when fed directly from battery.
Total shot in the dark here. Make up a test lamp with a 20w bulb and use that to test the voltages. Logic is that many years ago I was fault finding a problem where all the voltages looked good on my brand new all singing and dancing fluke digital multimeter. Despite that nothing worked! Talking to my boss he told me to test with the old AVO 7 analogue meter we had. Lo and behold I found a missing supply that the DVM insisted was there and correct. The supposition we came to was that the DVM didn't draw a lot of current, and the system could deliver the required voltage but only with a few milliamps. The 20w bulb will draw just under 2 amps so would be a reasonable load without blowing fuses.
Very good point. I actually put a new battery in my meter last weekend just to eliminate any potential misreading but your suggestion sounds good to me. I could rig something up and a break from the bike will do me good. Thank you for helping out.
Unfortunately not. I’ve been snowed under with other commitments and have had to leave the bike alone in order to keep everyone happy. I did manage a little fettle though. Being concerned with my hiss system being the culprit I did source a replacement antenna and even that went wrong lol….. the plug is the wrong orientation regarding male/ female and as I considered how that had managed to happen ( my fault entirely obviously) and considering splicing it in I just realised that at this moment I’m not thinking clearly and together with things not generally going in my favour, I just walked away. Now that I’m in the clear for a while I will be back up the garage of an evening trying to get to the bottom of this. It does help that I’m usually putting her away for the winter about now and I tend to have something in bits up there anyway, at least I keep telling myself that ! Cheers
Cheers for asking Boothman… (and everyone who also came along to help me out) yes she’s recently had a test ride and everything seems to be as it should. It was the yellow multi pin connector on the rhs behind the mid section fairing. Oh so simple, or not in my case. This block was a constant point of checking as I ran through things and I used its readings to verify or become part of testing every bloody thing. There was my downfall. The block was difficult to probe as the pins are insulated. My solution was to insert a pin into one of the connections so I could just put my meter probe to the pin without struggling to hold the block at the same time. Unfortunately for me, internally the common link had failed. A broken wire. Unawares, I used this as a reference for everything. Painful lesson learnt. I really went down the rabbit hole with this one and if maybe I’d tried a different pin out to run my tests from things would have been different but hey ho that’s life. An ECU, calls back and fore to them, posting here for much needed help, it’s all a journey. Thanks to all. Genuinely, thank you all for every bit of help and advice you’ve passed my way. Really appreciated. Btw…after finding the fault I installed my original ECU and it obviously worked. I didn’t tell the Mrs that part !
