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Electric start issues
TrickyMicky:
Definitely sounds like a duff battery, irrespective of its age. It may have been a bit older, but I have just had the same problem with my 250. (No kickstart!!!). Left it on charge overnight, was reading 13.8 volts, touched the starter button in the morning to check. Magic!!. Went indoors to put all the riding clobber on, pushed bike out of garage, pressed starter button and all it did was kill the neutral light. New gel battery fitted, sanity returned.
Coppertop1234:
All sorted it was the brushes in the starter motor.
Replaced with a spare and starts so much quicker ,motor hardly spins and she's away.
Thank you for comments during diagnoses process.
Cheers
Keith
Johnwebley:
Interesting
I had similar issues with the dyno/starter on my Yamaha CS5
turned out to be carbon dust between the segments on the cummutator ring,
Narrow screwdriver cleaned the gaps,
Now working properly
The little things
I had no previous experience with these, but live and learn
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Skoti:
Thanks for posting the conclusion to the problems.
Always learning stuff on this forum.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Now you have identified the problem, were there any other signs you might have missed, such as a hot starter casing, that made you look at the starter itself?
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