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How did this turn into a Zero topic when this is under the Energica section haha? The SR doesn’t come with sprockets and a chain where you can down size the thickness of the chain so I would think less people have played with that and the Energica being more of a high performance bike I was curious if people had done some swapping or with the less rotational mass they gained a little more. I can’t see someone other than maybe electric cowboy swapping to CF wheels for racing the zero since as I mentioned aren’t really a performance oriented e-bike. I have an SR as well and definitely didn’t see any difference in putting a windscreen on..I have the puig so not the biggest either.

Ultrarnr, so I possibly wouldn’t even need the D4’s eh? You wouldn’t happen to have a picture at night of you in the riders seat showing how bright they are would you?

When i applied for mine in August of 2016 the budget had already been exhausted. So I had to wait until California approved the new budget for the new year if they had one. They did, so I was sent my check once the new budget was approved.

So I’m looking to install and mount these on my bike as I have done on other bikes the only thing that’s got me is where I would plug the connection that goes to the battery on the Zero? I have a 2016 SR. I don’t want to buy them until I know I can for sure mount install these on the motorcycle without issue. Thanks guys!
http://www.twistedthrottle.com/denali-d4-2-0-trioptic-led-light-kit-with-datadim-technology

Quote from: Shadow on July 14, 2017, 03:38:05 AM

Quote from: Electric Terry on July 14, 2017, 12:49:25 AM

I'm sorry about your charger Shadow, I've blown up plenty of stuff before too, it happens to all of us.  But it isn't a fault of the product if you short something while messing with something you were warned ahead of time of doing and then surprised when it breaks, and upset that it's not covered under warranty.  I mean think about that for a second.  That has to make sense, right?

To the best of my knowledge and ability I did not "short something while messing with something". I'd documented with photographs my efforts to verify function of all three SCv2 charging units since there is no known troubleshooting process. Nothing too exciting if you have ever used a digital multimeter before. Based on the photographs and knowledge that I had exposed the 12Vdc supply terminals for measurement, it was said that the warranty could not be honored. I was offered a replacement unit "at cost". I have the failed unit here and if someone would like to perform a failure analysis on it I'll send it over before returning it for a core exchange to DigiNow. Any takers?

I had my '15 SR charger replaced last week. Great service here in San Diego. The dealer tech asked me if I had a timer  or switch when I connect the bike to the outlet because he saw all the faulty charger had either that, or connected to a gfci outlet. Any other experience with this? I have indeed a timer....

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Which dealership in San Diego did you have yours swapped at? Rocket motorcycles? I'm north of the San Diego county I'm having mine done at KTM in murrieta where I bought the bike. I plug into a normal indoor socket with no timer.

Quote from: What_clutch on July 13, 2017, 02:45:17 AM

Quote from: Electric Terry on July 06, 2017, 03:28:51 AM

I wish Zero would choose another charger manufacturer for the S/SR/DS/DSR. So strange but the Calex on the FX has been one of the most reliable components on the FX. But the 1300 watt version they can't seem to get right even after 6 revisions.

If it's under warranty let the dealer replace it at no cost to you. But I'd recommentld just getting a supercharger and using that most of the time instead, even if you have the Charger replaced

I wish they would to since I've came across so many threads on them failing.

It should be under warrantee I've only had the bike for a year and maybe a year or two. I will be having the charger replaced since it seems like I have no other option as diginow is backordered from Hollywood electrics for a couple of months out and I forget the brand of the one from Australia that there's a post on here about but there's no testimonials on that. Did you keep your onboard charger along with the supercharger?

Personally I removed my stock Calex (had 3 fail over 2 years (38,000 miles) and just wasn't too excited about bothering Customer Service at Zero for another as the weight is the same for 1.3 kW Calex as 6.6 kW (5 times more power dense! FIVE TIMES for the same weight!!!) for a Diginow Supercharger and still waterproof and can enable charging and do everything the stock Calex can)

But I wouldn't recommend this to anyone else. If you're thinking about it (electrical engineer hackers) you know who you are. Otherwise, keep the stock Calex charger.  If it fails and you are in warranty just get another.  It is definitely the weakest component on the Zero by far.  The rest of the bike is rock solid!

But do get the supercharger in the tank area, or if you have a powertank, for your top case, pannier mounts or crash bar mounts (many places to mount waterproof chargers).  You'll never regret getting it one bit once you use it the first time. It's totally freaking amazing the power out of such a small package.  I wish I had that in 2014, but it just came available this year!

I'd definitely be willing to get one but the only problem is getting one at the moment only ones selling it are Hollywood electrics Grand Canyon cycles I think the name is no longer is a dealer for them so kinda screwed haha.

What's the reason for not removing the stock one in my case? Once it runs out of warrantee I'd rather not have to pay the ~900 out of pocket to replace the stock one knowing that it's probably going to fail sooner or later..I hit exactly 11,000 miles on my 2016 when I got to the dealership.

I don't have a power tank so I'm literally screwed if the stock charger takes another puke and this time it's not at home. I'm learning from you guys that have been through what I have and have found remedies so keep the info coming. Thanks! Btw dig all the posts on your Instagram.

I plugged in the motorcycle and nothing happened. So I checked the wall outlet and nothing was wrong with the voltage it was provided but decided to try a different wall outlet, when I did and plugged it in and out 3-4 times. I herd a weird almost vibrating sound from what sounded like the on board charger at the bottom and it did its normal click and started charging. Or so I thought, the charging light blinked 7-8 times and it stopped blinking but the battery percentage remained up as if it was charging but also wasn't indicating how long till it'd be done charging. So I unplugged it again and did everything the same and again the same thing happened. Switched the bike on, put the kickstand up everything along with the lights was normal and gave it a little throttle and everything seemed fine but I did notice the battery percentage had jumped up from 38ish to 42. So I plugged it back in and it did the same thing so I pulled up the error codes which were all the same you'd normally get with the kickstand down and the killswitch in the "off" position but also read 06 and 47 codes. This was while the green light has stopped flashing, time indicator when battery will be finished charging not displaying a number but the battery percentage up on the screen and the lights blinking on the red and green on the bms. I left it alone for a while and tried plugging it back in again just now and now it acts as if I haven't plugged anything in so I can't charge the motorcycle. Also those same error codes I pulled off there do not come on anymore while I have it plugged in with the key switched on to check the error codes with the stand down and kill switch in "off" exactly as I did the time before. Also tripped the circuit breaker. I have herd of people saying to take the ground plug off the cord, so what do you fellas suggest I do. Should I have the charger replaced under warrantee and then buy one of the other chargers and remove that to have it as a backup or?