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Why do my Backup light and console lights stay on with the key off?

Tiny2

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Spyder 2022 S2S with 3000 miles. This bike was new when purchased by me in 2023 Oct. It has been driven now for about a year with no issues during daylight hours. I went on a pre-dawn ride this morning and found that I had no headlights. I opened the fuse panels and found three missing fuses on the right-side fuse box - that is to say, the fuse box on the right side of the bike while sitting on the bike. Fuses F5, F7, F8 are missing. F6 should have a 15-amp fuse according to the printout, but it had a 5-amp fuse.

After replacing the missing fuses, the headlights all worked. I drove it about 250 miles. When I shut it off, the backup light and the orange lights around the buttons on the console below the key were all lit up. I waited 25 minutes, and they never went out. I removed fuse F6, and the lights went off. I can still start the bike and the headlights all work.

What is going on? Is it supposed to have fuses in those locations? What caused the light to stay on?

F6 says it is for the injectors and coils. That should not have anything to do with those lights.

Thank you in advance
 
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Well Tiny, I'm looking at your 2022 Operator's Guide right now. I don't have a 2022 diagram. I think that we're still struggling with right and left. You specified the you are talking about the RIGHT side fuse box as you are sitting on the bike. Well, fuse F6 in the RIGHT side fuse box is SUPPOSED to be a 5 amp fuse. It's for your DC accessory plugs. Fuse F6 in your LEFT side fuse box is the 15 amp fuse for injectors and coils. And, if F6 in your RIGHT side fuse box is installed, F7 SHOULD be empty. F8 is not used. F5 should have been installed.

IN YOUR RIGHT SIDE FUSE BOX, F6 AND F7 SHOULD NOT BOTH BE INSTALLED AT THE SAME TIME.

So, take a moment, pull out your Operators Guide, and see if your LEFT and RIGHT side fuse boxes, as you're sitting on the bike, are populated the way the manual says they should be. And, for that matter, check if your left and right side box covers have been swapped, thus adding to the confusion. If memory serves, there were labels on the inside covers.

Once we get all of that straightened out, my guess is that your indicator lights stayed on because you had fuses in both the F6 and F7 slots at the same time. You can get a weird back feed that way. If you want your accessory plugs to turn on and off with the key, you put a fuse in the F6 slot and leave the F7 slot empty. If you want them powered on all the time, then you put the fuse in the F7 slot and leave the F6 slot empty.
 
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