I put this e-mail on another forum here, but, I thought that maybe I should place it here also since it is specific to RX-1s.
I talked to a Yamaha mechanic and he told me that crossing the jumper cables could cause major electrical problem down the road....has anyone had experience with a situation like this and is there any way that I can check things out before hand to determine the health of my electrical system? I sure don't want to be stuck out on the trail..........
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Hello,
We have two RX-1s which have the positive and negative remote battery cables coming out so that you can easily attach a battery tender without taking the air box off to get to the battery.
Questions:
1) Will it hurt anything to jump a battery on one RX-1 from the other by connecting the jumper cables from one RX-1s remote battery cables to the other RX-1s remote battery cables?
2) Since the positive and negative remote cables are very close together, what would happen if the negative and positive clamps touched one another?
This happened to us and they sparked and we quickly disconnected the cables..........but my concern is will this damage either battery or anything else in the RX-1s electrical systems? Am I correct to assume that a fuse would blow before any damage was done?
Thanks for any help that you can pass along.
I talked to a Yamaha mechanic and he told me that crossing the jumper cables could cause major electrical problem down the road....has anyone had experience with a situation like this and is there any way that I can check things out before hand to determine the health of my electrical system? I sure don't want to be stuck out on the trail..........
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Hello,
We have two RX-1s which have the positive and negative remote battery cables coming out so that you can easily attach a battery tender without taking the air box off to get to the battery.
Questions:
1) Will it hurt anything to jump a battery on one RX-1 from the other by connecting the jumper cables from one RX-1s remote battery cables to the other RX-1s remote battery cables?
2) Since the positive and negative remote cables are very close together, what would happen if the negative and positive clamps touched one another?
This happened to us and they sparked and we quickly disconnected the cables..........but my concern is will this damage either battery or anything else in the RX-1s electrical systems? Am I correct to assume that a fuse would blow before any damage was done?
Thanks for any help that you can pass along.
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If they just touched there is very little chance of damge now or later.
If they bonded and fried melting the insulation off the wires damage is possible to the battery at least!
If they bonded and fried melting the insulation off the wires damage is possible to the battery at least!
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If they just touched there is very little chance of damge now or later.
If they bonded and fried melting the insulation off the wires damage is possible to the battery at least!
X2!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they bonded and fried melting the insulation off the wires damage is possible to the battery at least!
X2!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i have seen someone put the cables on wrong to jump it and the only thing that happen was blow the main fuse which is a 40amp and it on the starter relay an it is green in color
