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Digital odometer is not working properly.

tolga

tolga

Joined Oct 2005
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Bursa, Turkey
Hello,
My digital odometer on my Husaberg FE450e is not working properly. When stoped (after the rides while it is parked); it turns it self on and off and eventually kills the battery. When riding; it resets it self couple of times during 70 km ride. I don't have any signals or tail light.
What should I do? Any help? I asked the distributor, they don't know and seems like needs a new one. Also, the mechanic of the distributor said that it should not kill my battery because it runs on its own battery and he added that it does not get its power from the bike's battery. But in real life, it is not like that because I have checked it and it turned out that mine did not have a battery and it obviously powered through the bike's battery.
I have installed a 3 V battery (CR 2430) on the odometer but not yet installed it and I don't think it will solve it.
Anybody has a clue of what should I do?
If no ones knows here, than I will ask the main Husaberg but most likely I will end up buying a odometer there as well.
Any similar situations . . .
Tolga
 
tolga said:
Hello,
My digital odometer on my Husaberg FE450e is not working properly. When stoped (after the rides while it is parked); it turns it self on and off and eventually kills the battery. When riding; it resets it self couple of times during 70 km ride. I don't have any signals or tail light.
What should I do? Any help? I asked the distributor, they don't know and seems like needs a new one. Also, the mechanic of the distributor said that it should not kill my battery because it runs on its own battery and he added that it does not get its power from the bike's battery. But in real life, it is not like that because I have checked it and it turned out that mine did not have a battery and it obviously powered through the bike's battery.
I have installed a 3 V battery (CR 2430) on the odometer but not yet installed it and I don't think it will solve it.
Anybody has a clue of what should I do?
If no ones knows here, that I will ask the main Husaberg but most likely I will end up buying a odometer there as well.
Any similar situations . . .
Tolga
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Tolga,
The 3 V battery is essential. The odometer operates on this battery. The power from the bikes battery is only to power the light in the odometer. If you disconnect the bikes battery the odometer shall work but the light will be shut of after a short period. If you run without the internal 3V battery i don't know what happens!
/Christer
 
interesting , i just had a look at my speedo battery , it does not have one .

15 months old . no problems
 
The 3V battery in the spedo is for memory backup. If you don't have it installed, and disconnnect your main battery, you lose all your data.

As for draining your main batt... I recommend installing the 3V first, then disconnecting the spedo from the harness to the bike. Use a multimeter and check your wires out on the main harness...

Good luck!
 
Have a close look at your speedo pick up, and the wire coming up along side the brake line. The only time mine has acted weird in the past is when that cable had a problem.
 
I agree with Dale, check the pickup and its components. The battery will not do anything for the memory. These things use non-volatile memory (think that is the right term), which does NOT allow for the ODO to be reset, cause that would be illegal, right?

I think Dale is right, after thinking about it a bit. These things have a magnetic pickup at the wheel. When magnet goes by, it picks up on the signal. If the magnet is too far away, it might only pick it up at some points, or lose the signal occationally (like reseting itself a few times).

When you say reset though, does it lose the odo reading when it does? Is it obvious that the memory is cleared? Does it work normally?

My '03 never worked (until I figured it out) until I crashed once in Pennsylvania (my worse crash ever). After crashing, it worked for about 1 minute until it turned itself off (they are supposed to turn themselves off).

Keep us posted...

-Parsko
 
Thank u guys for the answers. As soon as I am certain of it I will post it. Hopefully tomorrow...

* My bike is 2004 FE450

* I don't think that the spedo runs only with it's battery because I was using it just fine without a 3V battery. It also kept the memories from the previous rides. I don't know about the light but the digits were always there.

* Yes, I think the 3V battery is only for back up memory in case if the main battery is dead or being replaced. But, it will never lose it's original km/mile and the running hours. All the other data will be lost. I think, at least this is the logical way as in all other electrical equipment.

* I don't know how I will check the wiring. It looks complicated and I don't want to get in it unless it is the last option. But I think the magnet could be the reason. It sounds right and it has a high risk because when it was in service my friend borrowed it for his non working one and bought me a new one and get that one installed.

* When riding it works just fine until it turns itself off and continues to work fine when it turns itself back on.

Than now, the real question is; what will be the explanation if it will work fine just because I installed the 3V battery?

Tomorrow I will check the magnet and keep u guys posted.

Thanx for all of the inputs.

Tolga
 
The pickup cable is definitely a great starting point... And I will state that I have experience in how the backup battery works. While it may be illegal to reset the ODO... go ahead, pull your battery and disconnect your bike battery. If you don't lose your ODO and HRS that were stored there, then my bike has a problem. If that's the case, then mine, losing all of its memory, was a fluke and a half. See, I didn't check to see if the 3V battery was there (I assumed it was) when I disconnected the bikes battery...when I reconnected...all Zeros again. (I've since added that wonderful 3V battery).
 
FE 450rich

i replaced my battery a while ago [12v] , i did not lose any data .

as i said previously , my speedo has no battery
 
Heres some useful power supply info for you.
Power Supply Options.

As far as the intermittent on/off fault and general quirks, check the outer sheath on the wiring to front wheel as it has more than likely rubbed a hole on the outer sheath on the headlight surround, which allows water to run into the lower part of the wiring where there are 2 bare solder joints at sensor/wiring join. I have seen this cause issues.

Also remove the sensor and look for a tiny crack- they crack the plastic due to impacts which also affects the reliable performance of these units.
I've given up on the plastic ones( broke about 6 all up between 2 bikes) and had a friend manufacture some unbreakable stainless steel ones.
 

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