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- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: this morning...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.154609.1080@island.COM>
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- References: <JET.93Jan25125117@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> <C1Fnsy.AG8@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> <1993Jan25.235743.3968@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:46:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.235743.3968@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60c-3gi@web-3c.berkeley.edu (Masayuki Karahashi) writes:
- >
- >here is where trouble began. I pushed the started button and nothing
- >happened, absolutely nothing. Not even the clicking sound the starter
- >makes when the battery is low. Simply nothing happened, all the lights
- >that was on stayed the same broughtness, so the load on the battery wasn't
- >too high or something. Besides, the battery is onyl 3 month old, and
- >I had just charged it last week.
- >
- >what happned? I don't think the temperture was cold enough to make the
- >battery performance degrade so much that it won't start. Besides, I've
- >been starting my bike in the same weather since last week when I charged
- >the bike. And the puzzling part is, I don't think it was low battery
- >since it just started after couple hundread million tries.
-
- Sounds like a short. It probably won't happen again for a while. In the
- meantime, you can start looking for possible "suspects". I fixed a short by
- wrapping my signal interuptor with in electrical tape: It was the only part of
- my electrical system I could find that had a metal unit that could touch any-
- thing else. So, look for anything that looks like it might be hanging loose.
-
- Good Luck.
-
- Mike
- --
- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-