Strange Odor
#12
RE: Strange Odor
ORIGINAL: Nick I.
Just a thought on that smell. check your battery after riding and see if it very hot. A bad VR cooked my battery and had that same type of smell.
Just a thought on that smell. check your battery after riding and see if it very hot. A bad VR cooked my battery and had that same type of smell.
a new one to get me home. I smelled that odor again and like you said to I checked to see if the battery was hot. It was SO HOT I couldn't touch it. Major over charging I'd say. So now I need to pick up a new
Voltage Regulator and I guess a battery. This battery swelled so much I am suprised it didn't explode.
Thanks again for the tip. You were dead on correct.
#13
RE: Strange Odor
Did you get a new regulator? Did it fix the problem? My bike is having the same sortof smell and its definitly coming from the battery by the smell of things. And to think I JUST got this battery.. brand new The smell only started tonight though, but I noticed that the battery is just not holding the same charge... my bike had a hard time turning on today.
#15
RE: Strange Odor
MY smell is definitly rotten egg smelling.. very sharp and distiguishable, ontop of that, my battery died tonight, like... stopped holding a charge. It was fine riding on the highway for 2 hours, got off my bike, parked it at a coffee shop and noticed a stinky smell. Went back out to my bike after and the battery was dead (not enough charge to turn over starter).. had to bump start my bike. Im pissed, I JUST bought this battery maybe 3 weeks ago.
#17
RE: Strange Odor
Connections are good, the only thing I could think that would cause this is a voltage regulator/rectifier that is a little off. Most (99.5%) of all electronics work within a 5-10% tolerance range. I figure mine might be a bit high and I rode pure highway doing 140km/h @ 7k rpm for 2 hours today, and thats when the problem occured because until today it has never been an issue.. but before today I have never taken it out and riden it like that.
#19
RE: Strange Odor
ORIGINAL: Syphen
Did you get a new regulator? Did it fix the problem? My bike is having the same sortof smell and its definitly coming from the battery by the smell of things. And to think I JUST got this battery.. brand new The smell only started tonight though, but I noticed that the battery is just not holding the same charge... my bike had a hard time turning on today.
Did you get a new regulator? Did it fix the problem? My bike is having the same sortof smell and its definitly coming from the battery by the smell of things. And to think I JUST got this battery.. brand new The smell only started tonight though, but I noticed that the battery is just not holding the same charge... my bike had a hard time turning on today.
#20