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- Jun 3, 2005
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Hi,
Rolled the Commando out of the garage this morning, all ready to go for a blast. I inserted the key to find no red ignition light illuminated, I checked the obvious fuse connectors etc. and all seemed as it should. I removed the battery and found it was completely flat - something seemed to have drained the power.
A friend who lives near me loaned me a fully charged battery off his Triton. I connected this to the bike and proceeded to start the bike. However, when I took the bike up the road I found the red ignition light was continuously lit. I returned home and cleaned several of the connections such as the Zenier diode. To make things worse; when removing the connections from the rectifier, (that has 5 connectors) one of them cracked the unit.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why the red ignition light remains lit when the bike is running? Could this point towards a faulty alternator?
Cheers,
Neil
Rolled the Commando out of the garage this morning, all ready to go for a blast. I inserted the key to find no red ignition light illuminated, I checked the obvious fuse connectors etc. and all seemed as it should. I removed the battery and found it was completely flat - something seemed to have drained the power.
A friend who lives near me loaned me a fully charged battery off his Triton. I connected this to the bike and proceeded to start the bike. However, when I took the bike up the road I found the red ignition light was continuously lit. I returned home and cleaned several of the connections such as the Zenier diode. To make things worse; when removing the connections from the rectifier, (that has 5 connectors) one of them cracked the unit.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why the red ignition light remains lit when the bike is running? Could this point towards a faulty alternator?
Cheers,
Neil