anybody seen this before? i know i have to change the r/r but why would i get absolutely nothing. no lights no cluster lights nothing. no when i put it on a jumper it fires right up. but the battery is fully charged.

 

have you checked all of your fuses?

 

Do your lights come on when the bike fires up on the jump start ?
If not, check fuses.
Could be the ignition switch is faulty - it happens.....

 

all fuses are good. when i put the jumper on, everything acts how normally does with the key to the on position. i'll fire it up let it run but as soon as the jumper comes off the bike is totally dead lights, engine, everything

 

My guess is a shorted out battery. I would bring the battery in and have it tested. Especially if you have a known bad rectifier. If your battery has been seeing ac voltage instead of dc and/or over charging... it can short out internally.

Maybe when you put the cables on... it makes connection and allows the bike to use the battery??? I'm not really sure.. but I would have the battery checked.

 

Those were my thoughts as well. If there is an other power source on the battery (jumper) and works fine but dead with the jumpers off then that could only mean that the battery is gone.

Maybe testing it with a friends battery should tell you if your battery is fried of not.

 

funny you say that cause i tested the battery after charging it and it would give me a fully charged 12.9 ish reading. but when i turned the key on (remember there is nothing on with the key on) it started giving funny reading like below 1 volt. i was thinking about going after the ground in the morning. wondering if the jumper is giving it a good solid ground. but i dont know i havent seen this before.

 

yeah my commute is a little over 60 miles a day so if she was catching ac voltage she's caught quite a bit. my poor baby[&o]

 

same thing happend do my jetski, just found out that all it needed was a new battery. i wasted a whole summer thinkin that it was the fuel pump...oh well.

 

The battery is junk...mine just did the same thing...and was showing 12.5 volts