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[marcusfordus]

7 days after having the bike serviced I get on it for the 1st time this morning and find it 100% dead on the electrical side.

Jump leads to the rescue I get it runing again. Whilst having a swearing session in all my bike gear I have a quick think as to WHY it went flat.

I've come to the conclusion that when you turn off the key but still have a power load from the tank socket connected, it stays open and drains the battery. Just to test the theory out I left the sat-nav car lead connected with it's little green light glowing and removed the keys. And yes that's what had done the deed, still glowing Now this is the clever bit, if you unplug the lead and then remove the key it down-powers the socket and has no voltage output.

So don't go leaving your gadgets plugged into your tank socket when you switch off the bike !

 

[ILMV]

Go back and do it again, and time how long your GPS stays powered on for, I was under the impression that when you turn the bike off it provides power to the power socket for two minutes, then it gets turned off.

Would this be enough to drain the battery... seems unlikely :S

 

[John Armstrong]

IIRC some accessories, called Tom Tom mounts + Quest mounts are so clever that they draw sufficient current to keep the accessory socket alive and allow the battery to flatten. Even if the GPS isn't fitted, so anything with a transformer / other load might be enough