• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Burned ECU (from shorting it out) Revived

Yes the external earth strap is to take any current from a momentary short to +12v off the socket pin

The basics of it all are in the pdf I referred to in an earlier post and I will be adding further info with pics when we do another one here

The original Rotax single BMSC used on the BM's has a 1/4" spade connector for earth in the socket then an internal strap off the back of the spade connector which connects to the case. Makes life difficult to open up the ECU to replace components but protects the ECU. Those early ECU's survived some real torture when people first started trying to get into the firmware. I have some of them here
 
LED said:
I've cutout the plastic corner of a milk container and screwed it onto the +ve battery terminal using a nylon screw to protect against this problem. Can't remember who first suggested this, may have been glitch_oz.
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Screwing a piece of plastic to the + terminal is not a good idea and does not protect the BMSE from any other stray +12v leads. One ECU which was blown was the result of an owner wiring up accessories and it was the +12v accessory wire which shorted to the case, read the pdf I referred to in an earlier post
 
WayneC said:
Screwing a piece of plastic to the + terminal is not a good idea...
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??
What's wrong with a small plastic cover over the battery positive post as a guard against my own stupidity, placing tools/ materials across the exposed posts while working on the bike?
At least 90% of all vehicles out there have some sort of battery post isolation cover (at least for the + ), hard/soft plastic, I'm sure they can't have it all wrong.
Doesn't stop me screwing up somewhere else in the system and fry the bugger, though...
Btw...the screw/ small bolt used to hold the cover to the batt-post is non-conductive!!!




WayneC said:
....and does not protect the BMSE from any other stray +12v leads.
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Correct.
 
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