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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Speedo Died

captainc

captainc

Husqvarna
A Class
Ok,

I guess we all have to go through infant mortality, especially with electronic components... I was puttering around in some fairly tough logging trails this morning.. All of a sudden, the speedo hangs at zero.. Odometer and trip meter are working fine... All other lights and readouts on the electronic dash ok.. Checked wiring from the speed sensor on the front wheel to the wiring harness.. All secure.. Disconnected/connected the battery to perhaps reset everything cold... Didn't help.. Any other ideas before I have to schlep it 75mi to the dealer for warranty repair???

Many Thanks,

Mike...
 
captainc;50234 said:
Ok,

I guess we all have to go through infant mortality, especially with electronic components... I was puttering around in some fairly tough logging trails this morning.. All of a sudden, the speedo hangs at zero.. Odometer and trip meter are working fine... All other lights and readouts on the electronic dash ok.. Checked wiring from the speed sensor on the front wheel to the wiring harness.. All secure.. Disconnected/connected the battery to perhaps reset everything cold... Didn't help.. Any other ideas before I have to schlep it 75mi to the dealer for warranty repair???

Many Thanks,

Mike...
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That's really odd that disconnecting the battery didn't help :confused:
It's a common problem and that is always the fix. Did you leave it disconnected for a few minutes?


WoodsChick
 
check the speedo wire again-
Manet still in rotor

there is a white connector on the speedo wire up by the bars before it connects into the wire harness- mine broke right before that connector-

if you have a ohm meter you can check the wire- disconnect at that connector by the handlebars and connect both leads to the connector on the wire. Spin the front wheel- as the magnet goes by the sensor- you should see a connection every time. If that does not happen the wire is bad or the sensor is bad or misaligned. This assumes the magnet is in place obviously.

Mine completely died while riding 2 days in the rain- be care full- or reseal it as well. Plastic baggie just for bad rain days? Water got in mine where the seam is horizontally- there is a rubber seam there and there is a light coat of silicone- apparently not good enough didn't hold up well enough.
 
I only disconnected the battery for a few seconds... I will disconnect it again and leave it off for about five minutes... I did trace the wires from the front wheel sensor all the way back to the big harness behind the light/windscreen... All seems secure. If the wheel sensor was bad, my odometer and tripometer wouldn't be working, correct??? - but they are****************************************

Mike...
 
As much as I love the 610 I'm not a big fan of the dash. It's complicated, not user friendly, can't change screens or reset to zero on the fly and by all rights has proved to be kind of hit or miss when it comes to reliability. If mine were giving me problems I wouldn't replace it with another factory dash (even it was under warranty) I would just pony up for a good Trail Tech unit.
 
Thanks for your replies guys... I disconnected the battery during the first half of the football game. Reconnected it at halftime... Speedo is now working fine. I will take the new dash under advisement, especially if stuff like this continues.

Mike...
 
captainc;50250 said:
Thanks for your replies guys... I disconnected the battery during the first half of the football game. Reconnected it at halftime... Speedo is now working fine. I will take the new dash under advisement, especially if stuff like this continues.

Mike...
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Right on! Glad it worked out.

I had the same issue on this last trip I went on, but it's the first problem I've had with the dash in 5400 miles. The first month I had the bike I spent a rainy and snowy week riding off-road in Nevada and the dash was constantly wet and freezing. I fully expected imminent failure but I experienced not one hiccup on the trip or thereafter til the speedo thing a week or so ago.



WoodsChick
 
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