• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Battery Icon on Dash

Borgschulze

Borgschulze

Husqvarna
AA Class
I noticed once when my OEM headlight burned out, that the battery light came on and stayed flashing till I replaced the bulb.

Now that I have converted to a 35W HID, it sometimes comes on, and sometimes stays off.

Now from what I read, the battery icon in this situation is something of an "Overcharging warning" type deal.

Am I going to ruin my battery? Surely other people with HID conversions have this same "issue".

I've also just converted the bike to LED brake light and signals... which will reduce the power draw even more.

What can I do besides adding electronics to the bike, or just ignoring it, or putting tape over it :P

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No worries... the system is "under-loaded" so you get the "overcharge icon" before the regulator kicks off. That's a cool light by the way, how bright is it??
I went to a Baja designs 55w halogen and that had enough pull to keep the icon off. Now I've gone to a Voyager computer and love it. You can add all of the electronic accessories you want, that will keep the icon off and you still have plenty of wattage to drive it all. Or put the tape over it and hit the trail. Either way you have nothing to worry about, go have fun man.....
 
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