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[Spenny818]

Was your issue just the clicking bumblebee? Or was your bike having other charging issues as well?

[bumblebee]

before this happened had to bring it in for firmware upgrade to controller.  it worked fine then brought it to work pluged it in at home to charge next day was going to work in morning and noticed no green charged lamp in morning along with wird clicking pattern.  I was missing only one bar so I drove it to work and when I was home plugged it never showed the green charging light again and only 2 bars left.
Zero said to check fuses(they were ok) and red L.E.D. on charge controller under seat in front of fuses.  Zero said it should blink once when you plug bike in.  L.E.D. never came on and I decided it needed to go back to dealer.

[Richard230]

Maybe the firmware dump became corrupted somewhere between Zero and your bike's brain. 

[Spires]

Mine started clicking too.. I'm STILL waiting for the part to arrive. I have had my bike for a couple of months now and have only really had it out one time where it ran correctly. Just sitting in my garage plugged in, I've had one batter and now the charge controller break. Ive had nothing but trouble with my 2014 FX since I've owned it.

[bumblebee]

It appears the charge controller board has been updated.
Just got my bike back and notice no clicking sounds when bike charges.  Service manager says board was replaced with what they put in 2014 models.  It has a plastic cover and solid state relays.  I believe old board had relays that switched across each battery cell and measured voltage of each cell.  Also the relays are used to switch across each cell to charge them.  Relays suck and am glad they updated the board.  Happy to have bike again.