Clock on dash still not working....

[larryd]

How old is the battery??? Have you hooked a volt meter to the battery and watched how low the voltage drops when the motor is cranking?? Just another suggestion to try...larryd

[FINFAN3DP]

How old is the battery??? Have you hooked a volt meter to the battery and watched how low the voltage drops when the motor is cranking?? Just another suggestion to try...larryd

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm guessing it's the one that came from the factory. I have had zero issues starting it, even without having the tender hooked up all winter. (have the tender, just haven't hooked it up yet).

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

Fin, I was just going back over this thread and see you said you did check F1 and find it's good. Did you check it with an ohmmeter to make sure it doesn't have a break that you can't see? If F1 is good then the only conclusion I can come to is you have a defective cluster.

As has been mentioned before, this is the first time your problem has been reported on this forum. That's why you're getting scatter gun responses.

[larryd]

I've seen vehicles start but when voltage drops very low when starting sometimes the radio & clocks loose their memory...A simple test would be to hook up a 12 volt jumper battery to your Spyder battery and then start the bike to see if the problem is still there or its not...

You could use a 12 V. lawn & garden tractor or another vehicle...You may need motorcycle jumper cables to hook on the bike battery...

This is a very simple test...

Give it a try and report back...

larryd

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

I've seen vehicles start but when voltage drops very low when starting sometimes the radio & clocks loose their memory...A simple test would be to hook up a 12 volt jumper battery to your Spyder battery and then start the bike to see if the problem is still there or its not...

You could use a 12 V. lawn & garden tractor or another vehicle...You may need motorcycle jumper cables to hook on the bike battery...

This is a very simple test...

Give it a try and report back...

larryd

That's a possibility I suggested earlier, but not likely. The reason being if the battery voltage drops below 10.5 the cluster blanks out and the starter won't kick in. I think the clock would stay powered down to the 10.5 level and then reset, but at that point the starter won't work either. I think he's got a bad cluster.

[FINFAN3DP]

UPDATE: I installed the battery tender through my Spydercuff Powerplate yesterday, and it was red for about 45mins, then turned green. Clock still doesn't work. When I get it inspected in July, I'm going to have them try to fix it.