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[CVOJIMMYC]

Pushed my bike "2010 SESG"out of the garage Saturday, it had sat for about two weeks , Battery was dead and I mean dead, put the battery charger on it in fast charge mode , nothing happened! so I did the jump start mode, after the countdown to ready, ignition on, run switch to on, fuel pump runs , wait.... hit the start, not even a grunt!!!

  Ok battery is shot, made a dash to local HD shop, bought new battery , installed it, bike fired right up , WOO HOOO !!!! were going riding, HMMM wait a minute only the dash mounted tweeters were playing music from the radio, thought maybe I left a wire off of the battery in my hurried installation , took the seat off ,checking wires all are hooked back up, found an in line fuse blown AAH HA I found it...... nope , tried to install new fuse popped it right away, tried another fuse popped it too instantly. OK bike is running charging gauge shows good, so we went for a nice long day ride, without radio .

   Took outer fairing off today, and found one of the speaker wires had rubbed through its protective coating against the amp, that's mounted on top of the radio, thought I found the problem , tried to install new fuse again popped it too...... disconnected all wires from the amp except for hot and ground still pops the fuse, when I disconnect the hot wire from the back of the amp, fuse holds, but as soon as I hook up the hot wire to the amp the fuse pops....

  I think somehow the amp has shorted out , due to the speaker wire rubbing through.

    What do you think?  Any help and or advice would be a blessing!!

     Thanks

[Joel]

Sounds to me your trouble shooting has pointed to a bad amp.
And I have heard that allowing the pos and neg speaker wires to contant each other can damage a amp. I know that the speaker wires also have a history of shorting to the inner fairing support brackets so look at all wires that cross over them as well as the bottom of the radio for clearance of the nut.

[mjb765]

Sounds like the amp to me as well.

[dayne66]

I am going to learn from this......the fairing is coming off next time I'm home to install the replacement HD hidden antennae....and put a few extra wraps of tape on the vulnerable spots.

[CVOJIMMYC]

Thanks for your help!