My racing bike will do that too on the first charge after sitting a few days, it'll hunt all over the place once it's in a balancing mode, but as soon as I get the percent down to where it's back into normal charge mode, uhh, mid 80s percent wise? then from that point on the charge is like you'd expect it to be. It'll do this in both AC and DC charge mode once it hits balancing.
Sometimes I'll put it up right after a run with 70 percent or so on it, im tired it's the last run of the day, it's getting ready to rain, whatever, I say ehh, and put it up for the night . Being monday, up for the night means a week or two
. This is when I see that manifest it seems.
Not entirely sure WHY, but yah it is kind of annoying because it slows down the first charge of the day. Maybe because I just romped the hell out of the pack, and put it back like that, they are out of balance enough to cause it to go in that mode? At first I thought, hmm do I have a weak cell, but if that was the case it'd be doing this EVERY time, not just after a long set and only the first one.
Definitely sounds like a balance issue, give it a FULL charge, even if it's sitting there showing zero, but still says balancing, let it run, over night if it has to. If you come back the next morning, and it says 98 or 99 percent, even if it says charge complete, start it up again, maybe have to do this a few times until you get a good solid FULL charge where it does hit 100 percent and then says complete. This way you KNOW it has a full charge, the batteries are nice and packed and absolutely balanced, and have a good clean starting point.
If you do restart the charge at say 98 99 percent and it keeps going for half an hour, an hour etc, then it probably was that time out turn off someone talked about? Because if it was fully charged and stopped, it should very quickly, like 10 minutes or so, hit full charge again and terminate.
Make sure you have the bike off, ie no sitting there with the lights on etc, stuff to drain the battery down while it's sitting. that little bit of draw could goof with a charge Id imagine.
As for FW 43 being the culprit, I am going to have to say NO. My race bike has it's own custom software on it and does the same thing so it'd be hard to blame it on 43when it happens other places too.
Otherwise, Ditto !! I have the 23 Ribelle and LOVE IT !! Only complaint I have is it being capped at 125. This really sucks on a track... and well...not supposed to say this, but a nice sunday morning, no traffic,... it can suck other times too
Too bad youa re not around Jax, we could go for a run together.
Aaron