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[Starpower]

Battery has less than 3000 miles on it and It won't run. Noi Green light, full battery. Suspect kickstand switch as kill switch checks out ok.

Logs sent to Zero and this is the reply:

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The green line shows when the motorcycle turned on, magenta shows that it is in run mode, and yellow shows that the contactor in the power pack closed which activates the high current circuit. On the 2013 motorcycles it will only show if it is in “riding” mode or “charging” mode, not whether the kick stand is up or down or the kill switch is on or off. The orange shows that it is in ride mode and is not currently pushing any current from the battery to the motor. One possible issue could be the blue highlighted portion, that shows that the battery is limiting the amount of current drawn from the power pack, seemingly for no reason. This could indicate a power pack issue, however that would need to be diagnosed at a service center.

[TheRan]

I don't think whoever looked over your logs is very knowledgeable. Obviously there's no current going to the motor because it's not spinning, that's pretty much irrelevant. Secondly even though there is a current limit to the battery that wouldn't stop it turning completely. Even if it stayed at 100A that's nearly 12kW and would be enough to get you up to like 70-80mph, and anything over like 500A (which the logs show it does change too) would get you full power even at a low state of charge.