Went to start the Strada and got the nopstart EWS error. After going through all the solutions tried in various places on this forum with no luck , I rang the dealer who put me onto the distributor. After some discussion he suggested I check the continuity to the ring pickup. I was then I remembered I had changed the bars and had the top triple clamp off. He said the wires often break off where they go into the ring pickup. Checked and sure enough it was broken. It is very brittle. Broken off flush so I will try and fix it before I have to buy the whole key, lock and ecu ( or get it reflashed. Ring comes as a non separate part so you have to buy the lot. First I will try and fix. I will post if successful. May even be able to build a new ring if I can find out the windings and gauge.
Hey Greg, do you have access to a bmw antenna ring? Maybe it will work with the husky, then just put the bmw ring somewhere else on the bike an tape a key to it. Then just use a regular key for everything else. That's about $30 if it works. Got me thinking, hmm.
Ok managed to strip the wires out and resolder it. Heat shrinked and shoogoo. The shoogoo is to make a well adhered FLEXIBLE coupling to the ring plastic. Tried the key before glueing it, and the EWS error was gone. Thanks to JR's in Townsville and Vic at the Paul Feeny Ggroup for the help in isolating the problem. I will try and start it after it put it all back together. Here's hopeing. Becareful of the plastic around the key and the aerial ring . It is very brittle but looks flexible. If it was a jap bike with flexible jap plastic, it wouldn't have broken in the first place.
Worked a treat. VERY fiddley to fix. Thanks to decades of electronic fixing ( not a lot of fixing just a long time) I managed it. BE CAREFUL WHEN REMOVING THE HEADLIGHT OR THE TOP TRIPLE CLAMP OR PULLING ANYTHING FROM BEHIND THE HEADLIGHT. This piece is very brittle and will break easily. Reminds me of the plastic my Ducati 450 Desmo's spark pickup was made of. They used to crack and give an intermittant short that would strand up in the middle of nowhere. Took months to find and in the end had to make my own by hand winding onto a delrin hand carved former. That's what I was going to do if the Husky didn't work and a new key, ring pickup and ecu flash would have been way too expensive as well as the 600km round trip to get it done.
Just out of interest, could you go into this in a bit more detail on making your own pickup? Is it simply rewinding a coil with the same impedance? If you know the wire gauge and number of turns, can you work this out from dismantling the original? I assume you then need to connect the wire that goes to it. Looks like you had some extra breakage on the collar, the quarter front left in the photo, and that the ring is not concentric with the collar itself? Seems crap that you can't just get a new collar.
At the end of our trip last week, we were only a few km away from the Devonport ferry terminal for our return trip, and my wife left a cafe and geared up to head to the ferry, and she turned the key and her BMW F650GS had the dreaded EWS error on the dash (the last time she saw this error a few years ago her key antenna ring was kaput). After her punching the dash a couple of times didn't fix it, I told her to turn the key off and back on again. Sure enough this time the bike booted up ok and started. Nothing like a bit of a heart attack to get the blood racing with the thought of missing the return ferry. Interestingly, I think out of all the TR650 owners who have reported EWS errors on dash, none have been for the antenna component. I think there have been a few ECU replacements (mine included) and people who have had accessory wires possibly interfering with the antenna and low battery issues also. Thanks for the heads up on being careful around the antenna.
Sorry Tassierob but my memories of the Duc fix are VERY hazy as it was in the early/70's . It was a red plastic ring that was concentric to the "reluctor" from what I can remember. The pickup was wound around a "D" shaped former ( I think, long time ago) on one side . My old man helped me with it as he was a electronics tech. We dissolved the polyester coating and unwound it, counting the number of turns . Measured the wire gauge and rewound it with new enamel wire. the crack made it tricky be we managed it. Reepoxied it and wrapped a fibreglass reinforcing around it and EPOXY'ed it. Worked really well after that. Ducati parts in those days we NOT easily got. It was the fibreglass tank model with the 4leading shoe front brake and spent most of it's time vibrating stuff to death or just made it fall off. I learned about lock wiring early in my motorcycle career because of this bike. Kickstarter on the LEFT side , no compression starter relief . It was aweful to start the thing.
Highly interested here as well! Would LOVE to relocate the whole stupid security thing to "under the seat" or somewhere safe. A relocated pickup with the spare key closeby to bypass the whole issue, neatly wrapped "in cotton wool" to not break/ drown/ damage anything, then just run the bike with a spare $5 key from the local locksmith. (already got one of those, but can't get the OEM key into a permanent position, close enough to the barrel to prevent the error-msgs AND be invisible to "enquiring eyes"). Thanks to Bundy for the thread!! :-)
The ring pickup goes to a 2wire plug in the headlight. The trick ,I reckon, would be to connect the pickup directly to the plug in the headlight with a key through it ( shoo goo it in maybe) and use a hard key in the barrel. The is a picture of the plug in the original posts about the EWS error. It would get rid of some to the wire clutter as well.
