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Hi Guys;

I'm a technical writer by trade (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Duffy/e/B00JIAQQ8I/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1). Let me know if and how I can lend a hand.

Cheers;

Mike

Well, looks like I was quick off the mark. Turns out it's now tripping the fuse on any given circuit I happen to plug it into, even at 100% charge, so looks like there is still a fault.

Contacted Streetbike, who in turn talked to Zero. Back to the workshop for the bike, but interestingly, Zero are saying that it might be a problem with 'peak load' within my house. Not convinced, but willing to work with the  to sort out the problem.

Have you tried charging with a charge cord that has the ground pin removed?   I'd be willing to bet that will fix your problem.  A new charger isn't going to fix it, because they are still working at Calex to fix the residual current leak to the green ground wire, so I am pretty certain any "new" charger you get for at least 6 months and probably a lot longer isn't going to solve this part of the problem.  If it's tripping a hard 15 amp circuit breaker that has nothing else on the circuit then there is a different problem.  I'm just talking about GFCI's or RCD's.

Hi Electric Terry - interesting idea, I'll give it a go tomorrow and let you guys know how I get on.

Sadly, looks like I'm about to chew through my third charger for my 2015 SR. Same symptoms as before - not charging, and after about ten/fifteen minutes, it pops the RCD on the circuit it's on in the house. This would be the second of the 'new' generation chargers, so I'm more than than a little worried.

I'm seriously starting to think that the charger is a symptom rather than the cause. Mailed the logs off to Zero to see what they advise, but I'm expecting yet another week without my bike. At this point I'm seriously thinking I should insist on a new bike, there seems to be something systematically wrong with this one. What do you guys think?

I hope you don't mind me asking: What do you do for a living and how do you manage to use the bike to visit clients? I love it when people manage to mesh motorcycling with their jobs, even if it's just commuting.

Hasn't Streetbike given you a courtesy bike by the way?

I'm an IT consultant and writer, so I'm lucky enough that most of my work I can do from home; I do like to pop my head in the offices of the clients I have though to ensure they remember who I am. I generally only take a contract if it has bike biking, I've just added the additional caveat now that they have to also have somewhere I can charge said bike ;-)

They haven't offered one and I haven't asked; I don't need it, and I prefer not to have to look after other peoples kit if I can avoid it.

Still, fingers crossed I get it back this week!

Well, bit of an update on my side; had my bike picked up on Thursday, and it's definitely  a charger fault. Street bike are talking it through with Zero to ensure that the part they fitted was the latest generation charger (Which ostensibly should be more fault tolerant than the generation that shipped with the bike). Fingers crossed they should be able to replace it relatively soon as my clients are starting to get a bit peeved at my lack of appearance on site lately.

Interestingly, the fact that the bike identifies itself as a 2013 model in the Zero app has been classified as an App bug by Zero support. To me it's a worrying bug, it either means that the ID that the bike sends has changed since I purchased it, or... well, that's the only thing I can think of since I've replaced my phone, so it's not an app data fault.

Hi Guys;

I was riding home last night and had the entire lighting system cut out on my Zero - no main beam, no indicators, no dash lighting, and I'm assuming no rear light. Was pretty terrifying as it was pitch black on a busy dual carriageway. After about a minute or so they blinked on, then blinked off. Another minute on then off, and finally  back on. Each time they come on the ABS light was blinking. To my untrained eye, it was almost as if the 12v system had rebooted?

It's coming up for it's first service, so I'll mention it to the guys at street bike, but was curious if anyone else has seen this?

Cheers;

Mike