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Xciting 500 / Re: Another Exciting 500ri with starting problem..(SOLVED)
« on: March 20, 2020, 05:59:57 AM »
Hi all, this is my first post. Cheers to all and especially those who have put forward idea’s to try and solve the “poor starting” saga of the Not so Exciting 500i starting troubles. I think I’ve read most posts on the starting issues and after 6 years of troubles myself I think Kymco have been poor in not finding their customers a solution.
I live in the land of OZ (Sydney) so cold weather starts is not the main issue for me, but early on with this problem I did try a 500 watt lamp under the sump for ½ hour which helped.
My bike labors to turn over even with a new battery and doesn’t sound like it’s going to fire up. Even putting a car battery in parallel has mixed success. Only by connecting jumper leads from my car while it is running and supplying 14.4 volts will the bike fire up first time.
I now have a separate mains 240ac to 14.4v dc 50amp supply I built which clips onto the bike battery to give it a boast on starting rather than using the car. This works without fail!
I was interested in the post from xsel777 about a German forum where a bloke fitted a voltage boast to the ecu. The fact that my bike only wants to start with 14.4v applied makes me think he might be on to something. If anyone knows how I can contact this German I’d very much appreciate it.
However, that probably a long shot so does anyone have a copy of the electrical circuit for the 500i so I can work out something along this line myself? A small on board voltage boaster to just the ecu would be a better solution than what I have now. If it works!
So if someone has the circuit it will greatly help me.
2008-9 Exciting 500i
Chris Brace
Sydney OZ
I live in the land of OZ (Sydney) so cold weather starts is not the main issue for me, but early on with this problem I did try a 500 watt lamp under the sump for ½ hour which helped.
My bike labors to turn over even with a new battery and doesn’t sound like it’s going to fire up. Even putting a car battery in parallel has mixed success. Only by connecting jumper leads from my car while it is running and supplying 14.4 volts will the bike fire up first time.
I now have a separate mains 240ac to 14.4v dc 50amp supply I built which clips onto the bike battery to give it a boast on starting rather than using the car. This works without fail!
I was interested in the post from xsel777 about a German forum where a bloke fitted a voltage boast to the ecu. The fact that my bike only wants to start with 14.4v applied makes me think he might be on to something. If anyone knows how I can contact this German I’d very much appreciate it.
However, that probably a long shot so does anyone have a copy of the electrical circuit for the 500i so I can work out something along this line myself? A small on board voltage boaster to just the ecu would be a better solution than what I have now. If it works!
So if someone has the circuit it will greatly help me.
2008-9 Exciting 500i
Chris Brace
Sydney OZ