Electric Start

[Andy_C]

The battery is past it's best on mine, but given that it starts so easily on the kicker I have decided to remove the leccy starter.

Also means that I fit a lighter lower capacity battery.

Makes sense to me.

Starter will be put into storage until the time comes to sell the bike.

[MickeyMoto]

Or you stall it in gear in a queue and realise you can't find neutral...

[norbert]

Or you stall it in gear in a queue and realise you can't find neutral...

Pushing the bike about 30 cm forwards while trying to find the neutral normaly will enter

[Andy_C]

Well I never did remove the starter, decided it was too useful so bought a new battery - Yuasa YT12B-BS which is good enough ?

Roll on a few months, it has decided it no longer wants to start on the leccy start. It still starts first or second kick, but flatly refuses to fire on the starter.

A few weeks ago I took the motor apart and cleaned it up and for a while it would start on the electric starter, it seems like the motor just does not turn it over fast enough, I have checked the motor leads and earth leads for high resistance, and it all checks out as well under 1 ohm as far as my test meter tells me.

Battery voltage is just over 13 volts with no load, so I am guessing that the motor is past it's best, perhaps the time has come to remove the leccy start after all.

[scbond2@yahoo.co.uk]

Have found so far that a vertex vp2op-3-1 works my starter ok

steve

[TimBell1962]

Or you stall it in gear in a queue and realise you can't find neutral...

They have neutral?

[Steve Brown]

Oh yes, a number of them and mostly not where you expect it to be.

[BumbleBee]

How many ohms across the starter relay?

And is the circuit that pulls the relay in, pulling it in 100%?

[Andy_C]

How many ohms across the starter relay?

And is the circuit that pulls the relay in, pulling it in 100%?

No more that 0.2 ohms between battery and starter motor - checked with my multimeter

Pulling in 100% ? As far as I can tell, there is a good solid click and as I say aroind 0.2 Ohm