Argh alarms & immobilisers!

Ghosteh · 25 Jan 2011 at 00:49

Well, my Datatool System 3 has decided to go fubar, and has completely immobilised my bike. I first thought it was a battery problem, going dead over winter, even though it was getting a turn over every now and then. So I went out today and bought a battery charger. After attaching the leads to the battery, I look at the charging unit, and see the battery is already showing as charged. So I borrow a multimeter from a mate, and notice it's still got life.

So cue me goggling the alarm, and how to do a full reset. Talk about bloody awkward. End up stripping all the fairing off the bike looking for the inline fuse, which I was unable to find. So I remove the fuses from the main fuse box that it could be connected to, then disconnect the correct wires from the alarm system itself, leave for 6 hours, then reconnect everything.... and still nothing!

Stupid Alarm.

Will be removing from my loom as of tomorrow, always been a bit of a pain in the arse, going off for no reason, usually the motion sensor going mental, even when it's on a stand, in the garage lol.

Just want to ride the bloody thing! hah.

/rant

Going to be ending up as a track bike soon enough, so the alarm won't be missed lol.

Ghosteh · 25 Jan 2011 at 10:03

Fireskull said:
Gutted! Have fun getting it out of the loom

Apparently, it's not that hard, at least not to just get it out. Case of snipping around 10 wires that are connected to the loom cabling, then removing another two that have been put into the actual loom for the ignition & starter motor apparently, so just require re soldering lol.

Good Tuesday afternoon project

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Ghosteh · 26 Jan 2011 at 23:20

Well, pretty much stripped out the loom now. Just need to get my soldering iron out, and some heat shrink, and reconnect everything, put the fuel tank back on, and hopefully I'll be able to get out on it at least once before I go back to Germany lol.

Ghosteh · 29 Jan 2011 at 18:39

Well, buuger.

I think it could be the battery after all. As having removed the Datatool, still wasn't getting anything. So quickly reattached the charger, and turned it on. Still showed the battery as fully charged. So removed the charger from the battery terminals, only to look at the charging unit again, and noticed it was still showing fully charged, even though it was only connected to thin air lol.

Never mind, didn't want the alarm anyway

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