Intermittant power to instrument panel-Edited!
My 2008 K1200GT starts fine, but sometimes the display panel with all its warning and indicator lights that is located between the Speedo and Tach stays dark, no indicators. The bike starts and runs fine, but after a few minutes the warning lights all light up and flash, along with the warning red and yellow triangle light. This goes on for a while and then it seems to settle down after 1/2 hour or so.
While a loose connection to the display panel might do it, I'm not sure why it would stop misbehaving after a few miles, so I am leaning to some kind of low voltage situation that goes away once the bike has run for a while.....??
Battery is one year old. Bike sits with battery tender on it, gets very little use.
I guess I will have to do a good battery test, and then dig into the connections to the display panel...
**Update 1: Pulled the multi plug on the back of the instrument panel, it was tight and undamaged, dry. Put some dielectric grease on the connector pins and reassembled. No effect, problem still there.
***Update2: I'm thinking that the battery is the culprit. I charged up the battery and went riding. No problems for a few minutes, then flashing warning lights. Rode on for 20 minutes or so, and the lights settled down and no flashing.
I won't rule out a bad connection somewhere, like where the negative cable grounds to the bike, but my $$$ is on the battery as the bike sat on a charger for over a year.
**Really enjoying the conversation
My 2008 K1200GT starts fine, but sometimes the display panel with all its warning and indicator lights that is located between the Speedo and Tach stays dark, no indicators. The bike starts and runs fine, but after a few minutes the warning lights all light up and flash, along with the warning red and yellow triangle light. This goes on for a while and then it seems to settle down after 1/2 hour or so.
While a loose connection to the display panel might do it, I'm not sure why it would stop misbehaving after a few miles, so I am leaning to some kind of low voltage situation that goes away once the bike has run for a while.....??
Battery is one year old. Bike sits with battery tender on it, gets very little use.
I guess I will have to do a good battery test, and then dig into the connections to the display panel...
**Update 1: Pulled the multi plug on the back of the instrument panel, it was tight and undamaged, dry. Put some dielectric grease on the connector pins and reassembled. No effect, problem still there.
***Update2: I'm thinking that the battery is the culprit. I charged up the battery and went riding. No problems for a few minutes, then flashing warning lights. Rode on for 20 minutes or so, and the lights settled down and no flashing.
I won't rule out a bad connection somewhere, like where the negative cable grounds to the bike, but my $$$ is on the battery as the bike sat on a charger for over a year.
**Really enjoying the conversation