Dead battery (I presume)

[Seagull]

Hi,

After storing my Scrambler for a couple of months in a garage with no electricity, when I attempted to start it the fob wouldn’t work. Can someone advise best way to get the bike started presuming I’ve no ability to connect a trickle charger and I understand you need to be very careful attempting to jumpstart a bike with a lithium battery.

Thanks

Chris

[martin G10]

Hi,
A couple of months shouldn’t completely kill the battery and it’s battery recovery that’s a problem , optimate have a battery to battery charger , it pulses to create the higher voltage for lithium charging , your problem sounds as if your bike isn’t waking up ! motogadget say hold the fob to the sensor for 2secs , I think it takes more like 5+ secs , if your battery was low first signs would be slow cranking all the way to the ignition switching it’s self off when you press the start button. (maybe I should have just said hold the fob for as long as it takes for the sensor to wake up)
regards martin

[Seagull]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I’ll definitely look into the Optimate battery to battery if going to continue storing the bike in this particular garage.

I spent a very long time playing around with the fob. Admittedly I still don’t know exactly where the sensor is on the Scrambler. Does anyone have a photo of exactly where I should be placing the fob? It would be great if that was the issue.

Thanks

[Seagull]

Problem solved. Turns out needed some patience, it was a good 5 seconds nearer 10 before ignition came on.

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