Bought my bike, a 2000 last week and got a scare on Saturday. Went for a ride and when I got home the temp guage was at 223 so when I hit the kill switch I left the bike on so the fans could keep running. After about 10 minutes I came back outside...fans were off so I turned the bike fully off. About 20 minutes later I tried to start my bike again and the battery was dead. Wouldn't even try to turn over. Ended up jumping it and it started right up like nothing had happened. Rode it around for about 5 minuted and then turned it back off. Ate some lunch, came back out and it started right back up. Since then have used it about 5-10 more times and it starts right up. Since the first episode I have been turning my bike off as soon as I hit the kill switch so the fans don't keep running after the bike it off. Bike also has silverstar...or whatever their called headlights. Could the be the R/R issue everyone is talking about? Help!!!
Hey Nolan. Don't have an answer for you, but more of an opinion of the cause. I've got a '07 with an installed volt meter, and I can tell you that on mine, even with it running, when the fan kicks in, it drags the volt meter down some. So with your bike off, and the fan running and headlights its possible it was just to much for the battery. How old is the battery? Maybe if it were a new(er) one, it wouldn't have killed it...IMO. Good Luck.
Hi. I think it just drained the battery down too far. Most bikes don't have very large batteries, maybe 6 to 8 amp-hours. Typical starter type batteries don't like to be discharged too far. Plus as the battery ages it may not fare as well as new. So figure with the low beams only on (unless you had the hi beams on too), that's about 9 amps low beams only, plus say another 5 amps for the fan, and a couple amps for tail/running lights could be about 16 amps total. So even a new fully charged 8 amp-hour battery is only going to be able to sustain a 16 amp load for 30 minutes at the most. After 20 minutes it probably just ran down too far to start.
