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Pull the sled off the trail and in the garage to thaw off, shut the sled off and walked away, came back 2 mins later and the two outside lights on the gems controller were still flashing back and forth, turned it on and back off and lights still flashed, unhooked negative battery terminal and they went off, hooked it back up, started sled again and then turned it back off and lights turned off this time. Any idea what why that would happen?
Did you turn off key or hit Kill switch? Other than that I have had problems with things not coming on not, not shutting off!
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Always shut it off with the key, but I pulled key and shut kill switch off too and they still stayed on
Thats a new one then. NOt sure why the system did not power down. I have 2 gems on mine and they do blink for a second after shut down but not extended.
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Ya this was a couple minutes after I came back in and seen they were still flashing, possibly unhooking the battery reset something cuz it powers down now, but still weird
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Contact MPI... thats a gems box split into the harness, maybe they would know.
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Digging up an old thread I found through the search.
I'm having this very same issue with my gems. Happened once on the Houghton TY ride. After stopping for lunch we noticed the gems lights were still on and stayed on. We had a quick text with Ulmer and he said to disconnect the negative battery cable to reset the ECU. This worked. But towards the end of the year it happened again. Munising TY ride ... Stopped at an intersection for a bit. Everyone fired up and took off. Mine would not start. Tried and tried - figured it was the famous hot start issue. After 10 minutes of sitting around and running the battery down with failed start attempts, someone noticed the lights to the gems blinking (gems is hidden away from plain view). Flashback to Houghton .... disconnect/reconnect negative battery cable ... Fired right up and we took off.
Does anyone have a solution? Disconnecting the negative battery cable is the most ideal way to remedy this.
I'm having this very same issue with my gems. Happened once on the Houghton TY ride. After stopping for lunch we noticed the gems lights were still on and stayed on. We had a quick text with Ulmer and he said to disconnect the negative battery cable to reset the ECU. This worked. But towards the end of the year it happened again. Munising TY ride ... Stopped at an intersection for a bit. Everyone fired up and took off. Mine would not start. Tried and tried - figured it was the famous hot start issue. After 10 minutes of sitting around and running the battery down with failed start attempts, someone noticed the lights to the gems blinking (gems is hidden away from plain view). Flashback to Houghton .... disconnect/reconnect negative battery cable ... Fired right up and we took off.
Does anyone have a solution? Disconnecting the negative battery cable is the most ideal way to remedy this.
