[Namadra]

Hi all, I did search to see if any of my questions could be answered elsewhere so that I didnt fill the board with mundane tosh. Sorry.

I have a SP1 that has a flat battery that went completely down when I was away with work. I connect it up to a Jump Starter all the lights come on blah blah... but when I try to disarm my alarm / immobiliser nothing happens (lights dont blink etc.). Has anyone come across this before? Do anybody know if alarm/immobilisers (Mine is a SpyBall) require a lot of power to disarm and that perhaps i need to charge the battery up fully or get a new one.

I am trying to avoid calling out my Local Alarm and Audio company who will charge me stacks o' cash.

I have been told to rip the thing out but unfortunately I am not very confident as playing with my bikes wires.

Many Thanks,

Shaun

[b.miller123]

I'm going to go ahead and assume that the bike wont start and that is the issue?

The first unfortunate thing is that you have an alarm that I (and probably a lot of people) have never heard of.

The second unfortunate thing is that you aren't confident with your own abilities around wiring. I used to be the same way.

Just disconnect the battery and start pulling the bike apart, you'll get the hang of it if you take your time, label stuff, and take lots of pictures if you want.

The first thing that anybody is going to tell you is to fully charge the battery, and then try it, if that doesn't work, just disconnect the alarm/immobilizer thing and go from there. That's what I would do. Even if the "immobilizer" thing is hard wired in, it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out with some time. Just find the unit and trace all the wires coming out of it.

There will be wires going to the battery or something else for power/ground (my scorpio uses the ground from the license plate light and the power from the battery). There might also be wires going to the turn signals or something like that (again, my scorpio alarm has those) if your alarm flashes the turn signals when you arm it, then you'll have them.

The next part is probably what is giving you problems, find the wires coming from the alarm setup that go to "something". That "something" is either going to be your fuel pump relay (it's one of the ones in the tail), or possibly the starter relay, or the "angle bank sensor" (tip over sensor, it's the half round looking thing attached to the undertray down behind your shock on the left hand side) or it's relay. They could have even wired it to your ECU (hopefully they didn't).

Find those wires and where they are going, report back and we'll be able to help you out along the way. The way that my "immobilizer" works is that you have a separate box which gets it's signal from the alarm unit (yours may be this way, or they might just come right out of the alarm) the box has two wires that com out of it. The two wires can go to anything (like the fuel pump relay). When the box gets the signal from the alarm saying that the alarm is disarmed, then it makes the connection and allows the fuel pump to run. Usually these types of systems are best installed on a relay where there isn't a lot of amperage, if they are wired right in line with the fuel pump, they have much more amperage going through them, and usually that is cause for them to go bad.

Don't forget the #1 rule of the internet: pics, lots and lots of pics.

If you have any questions about electrical stuff, post them up! I am no electrical genius by any means, but I know a few things, and there are plenty of people here to fill in the gaps.

[Namadra]

Hi and cheers for the responce. I will probably give it a shot - watch out for a new post "how to stop electrical fires from melting fairings"!