My 2006 Bonneville America was sitting in the driveway running and warming up and then just quit. When I tried to restart it, the electrical system was dead, except for the headlight. The battery has a charge, and the head light comes on with the key. The headlight will switch back and forth between high and low beam, but everything else is completely dead. Any ideas?
To start with, your battery was probably already low. You have to be at about 4000 rpm for the charging system to kick in and put out 14v or so. So if you just sit and idle, you will eventually run the battery down. If it is already low, you may have run it down below where there are enough amps to start it again. I know my 2002 BA started having what appears to be charging or regulating problems and the batteries won't stay charged. Try charging the battery with a good trickle charger to begin with. Then, when it is fully charged, run the bike and see if the charging system is keeping things up.
Mike
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