WayneOrwig
GT Reference
Last week during one of our deluge rains, the speedo sender failed again.
I got the horrible SERVICE warning and red light. :?
After I got home, the next day, I heard the stepper motor running in and out, in and out. I disconnected the battery and reconnected it. No more stepper motor. Odd......
For the next week I had been riding the EV (it has a better windshield for that rain and a trailer hitch for the camping trip I was on).
Today.....dead battery in the Stelvio. I charged the battery, turned the key on and off. The stepper motor keeps grinding away.
I dried out the speed sensor, cleared the dash error, no more stepper motor grinding away with the key off.
I can't be sure, but I get the feeling that the SERVICE error message was keeping something in the system turned on. :x
BTW, I connected a current shunt and made a measurement. Whatever was on, was drawing about 0.4 amps. And out of curiosity, the weak battery gets about 7 to 8 amps of charge current from idle up.
I got the horrible SERVICE warning and red light. :?
After I got home, the next day, I heard the stepper motor running in and out, in and out. I disconnected the battery and reconnected it. No more stepper motor. Odd......
For the next week I had been riding the EV (it has a better windshield for that rain and a trailer hitch for the camping trip I was on).
Today.....dead battery in the Stelvio. I charged the battery, turned the key on and off. The stepper motor keeps grinding away.
I dried out the speed sensor, cleared the dash error, no more stepper motor grinding away with the key off.
I can't be sure, but I get the feeling that the SERVICE error message was keeping something in the system turned on. :x
BTW, I connected a current shunt and made a measurement. Whatever was on, was drawing about 0.4 amps. And out of curiosity, the weak battery gets about 7 to 8 amps of charge current from idle up.