Battery Flat - All My Fault !

All set this morning for an early ride, dressed and ready to go, turn on the ignition and 'CLICK' - not a sausage...........bloody Triumph !

2 hours on the charger and away she goes.

Why ? I hear you ask, because I left the starter button in the RUN position rather than OFF, it drained the battery flat in 6 days, my last run was last Sunday and 120 miles.

Page 45 in the manual, don't leave start switch in the RUN position. Not used to all this modern stuff, that's my excuse

 

Yeah the kill switch, I'm used to turning the engine off with the key. Live and learn I guess or read the handbook...

It's worse than that, now the flippin engine management light is stuck on

 

Hi DD - the battery has been on charge with the optimate, now fully charged.

Can I not just disconnect the terminals overnight rather than taking the battery out ?

 

Thanks guys, I've got a few mad days at work now so will leave it and try one or all three of your suggestions next week...

I read somewhere just turning the ignition on and off 5 times clears it but it didn't work...

 

hhhhmmmm ! I definitely didn't leave the parking lights on. I know I left the start/stop switch in the run position for the last 3 weeks and thought that could be the only cause..

If it's not that then I'm at a loss why a 3 week old bike with 300 miles on has a flat battery. At the beginning I was starting it a lot when fitting the tail tidy, removing baffles etc but after a good long run last Sunday would have thought the battery was back up to full charge..

I've disconnected the battery and will put back late tonight, hope that clears the EML ..

 

Disconnecting the battery overnight didn't work...

I think I'll just keep riding it and hope it goes out, in the meantime try and get it booked in for its first service next week.

I fitted the optimate leads when the battery was first flat, wonder whether that has anything to do with it ?

 

I'm going to try that now, does it need to just warm up or get really hot and the fan kick in ?

 

The tail tidy was fitted by the dealer, I have shortened it but no snipping of any wires.

I have started it a few times this morning but think I'm better to leave it now until the weekend and as you say, go out for a run 3 times....

Thanks for your help, being a brand new bike things like this are just really irritating...

 

Yeah the battery was fully charged after about an hour (max ) on the optimate, I left it on for a few more hours and I've started it 4 - 5 times since and its perfect. As I say i did 120 miles last Sunday and it was dead by the following Sunday, didn't touch it in between, and the ignition and key were off. Doing that mileage you think it would have recharged the battery so something has caused it to drain in 7 days. Only thing was the kill switch was on RUN but we've eliminated that to be the cause, weird..

As long as riding it with the light on doesn't cause any damage I'll do a few more miles hoping it goes out and take it for its first service next week........if i can get it booked in anywhere that is ??

 

No alarm....

It's booked into Triumph Birmingham next Thursday, give me time to get it up to the 500 or so miles, you never know the EML light might have gone out by then. I'll leave it off the optimate as well and see what happens to the battery over the next week.

Watch this space.....