A 600 Gixxer at work that we sold recently, has a 9.8 milliamp draw. At first I thought the culprit was the GPS they have me install and it does have a draw, so that was the first thing I removed. The bike came back, complaining of dying while riding. I didn't know this when I first started working on it, I was just told that this afternoon. I thought it was dying from battery drain. So after replacing the battery and testing the R/R and three others(above), I've isolated the draw to the Red/Blue wire that runs from the fuel fuse to the instrument panel with a branch wires off to the fuel relay and another to the ECU. Pulling the fuse ends the draw. Disconnecting the front sub harness from the main harness, ends the draw. Pulling the ECU and fuel relay does nothing.
I've pulled the R/B wires out of both sides of the sub harness and main harness multi pin connectors(MPC), so I could isolate them from the rest of the harness and no draw. I reconnect the R/B wires with a test wire, but not the rest(MPC) and the draw returns, so it seems to be nothing to do with the rest of the sub harness. Checking the sub R/B wire to all other wires at gauge cluster connector and wiring harness MPC, shows no continuity from the R/B wire to any other wire. That should show there is no short in the sub harness. Also with the neg battery cable reconnected, R/B sub wire reconnected to the main R/B wire, shows no voltage is present at any other wire at the MPC or gauge cluster connector, so again I don't think there is a short in the sub harness.
If the MPC is reconnected and I disconnect the gauge cluster, the draw leaves, but I've tried another gauge cluster with no change, the draw is still present. So I don't think the gauge cluster is the problem. If I turn the key to on(not running) with the MPC connected, the gauge lights up but no read out, so R/B seems to supply it with some power, but it's not the only source, when the R/B wire is reconnected, the needle cycles and the digital readout returns. This seems to be a necessary thing, so I don't understand why there is a larger than 3 milliamp factory spec.
Sorry if any of this is confusing, I've been at this thing off and on for a few days. This draw is driving me nuts, to my brain it just doesn't register. Tomorrow I get to reconnect everything, button it up and take it for a ride to see if it leaves me stranded in triple digit weather. Lucky me. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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