Hey all,
I'm looking for some help on what might be an electrical gremlin. I was on a ride this past weekend, and found a sudden loss in low to mid range power when I turned my heated grips on. I just got a replacement generic Motorcross (Yuasa) battery as I was out of the country for 3 weeks and my battery was dead. I thought I has a parisitic draw, and replaced the battery, put it on my battery tender, and then took it off. I always went back to 13.2 V. I left it unplugged for a while and still same.
Then when I was riding, I had the major loss in power as mentioned, and also my low fuel light came on very quickly. I was at 40mpg. I do have an FMF fuel programmer installed. Is it possible this could be losing power with the grips on? Are my grips potetnially shorting out? Any thoughts on how to diagnose this? I need to check my battery voltage I think when running and with the grips on, and then my thought on the next step will be to try w/o the FMF with the grips on to see if it makes a difference. Is the mileage due to the poor performance?
Thanks,