Grrr. Welcome to ducati ownership. Collected the bike 2013 abs. Ride home Friday around 60 miles. Locked away all day yesterday. Out for a play today and not enough in the battery to start... Put it in the charger for a hour and fires up. 50 miles down the road and stop for half an hour... Won't start... Can anyone tell me what the battery voltage reading on the instruments should be for a good battery without the engine running? Assuming the battery is shot?
If the Multi has the same logic built in as the 1098 then here's the page from the manual. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Battery reading 12.8 on ignition but not enough to start it. Sound like battery is shot a s not enough cranking amps to get her firing. Time to work our recovery I guess
Ok, back home now, Massive thank you for those replies. helped me a lot as i was stewing with a non functioning bike.... I am confused and i suspect there maybe some user error here.... To finish up first, bike would not start whilst i was over at my mums, put it on charge and tried occasionally over an hour or so.. according to the charger, the battery was not taking any significant charge suggesting it was not completely dead.... Eventually the bike started and ran without fault... At all times today, with just the ignition on the battery voltage was reading 12.6 minimum. With the bike running it was reading around 14 v and not less than... When we got home i sat the bike on the drive and switched her off. restarted on the button. Left the bike for a few hours (Significantly longer than the first stop today) and again started on the button... And this is where the confession and user error may come in. my old bike i would have to blip the throttle on starting... i have been doing that and i wonder if somehow this is causing the problem? I guess it should not be necessary but was a habit from necessity on my old ride...
The missing component is not knowing the state of charge when you first got the bike. 60 minutes is long enough to put a surface charge on a discharged battery, but not a full charge- after all, you need but 1 more amp hour than the starer requires to fire it up. I'd pull the battery and see if you can find the date code on it somewhere. If its >3yrs, just get a new one, charge it fully, and install it. Once in, double check the running voltage and see if its 13.6-13.8ish- problem solved. All my machines have battery maintainers, I habitually plug them in when I park so they are all always fully charged. A full charged battery is a happy battery, leaving them in any state of discharge invites premature failure and cancelled rides.
Your absolutely right there. the bike has been sat mostly still for 2 weeks between my test ride and collecting the bike at the dealers. they will have run it up onto the shop for the work they did before handover but the state of charge is unknown... I have a cable coming for my maintainer in the next few days and i don't like leaving it charging overnight with clips on the terminal so will pull the battery and may just replace it anyway. its not big money and at least i now its done. pleased i managed to get home under my own power but with a Wife who is new to biking i am trying to avoid anything that knocks her confidence. thanks again for your answers and comments.
