I had an interesting thing happen to me yesterday and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. We've had some seriously cold temps up here in the Northeast over the past week plus and I went to start my sled for the first time in two weeks yesterday morning. It started fine but the IDD did not come on and I didn't touch anything else. Handwarmers were on low from the last ride.
After letting it warm up I turned it off and restarted. Upon restart the gauge came up fine but I noticed the frost was still present on the hand grips so clearly my handwarmers were not working. I put them on high, same thing. I then went to rev up the sled and noticed that on the headlights flickered, more like a strobe like on/off effect on anything above 2000 rpms.
I ran it around the yard a couple times and put it back in the shed. The headlights were still flickering and the handwarmers didn't seem to be getting any warmer. I stopped by one Polaris dealer on the way home to talk to them about it and they didn't' seem to know anything that might cause it but agreed something wasn't right. A call to another seemed to think it might have just been the severe cold but could be the voltage regulator. I did some searching and came across some info on bag capacitors from a couple years ago but those problems have seen to be fixed?
Has anyone else run across this problem? Any ideas? I didn't bring the sled home but apparently I should have to bring to my dealer... I'm hoping to figure out some things before heading back this weekend. Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks
JP
After letting it warm up I turned it off and restarted. Upon restart the gauge came up fine but I noticed the frost was still present on the hand grips so clearly my handwarmers were not working. I put them on high, same thing. I then went to rev up the sled and noticed that on the headlights flickered, more like a strobe like on/off effect on anything above 2000 rpms.
I ran it around the yard a couple times and put it back in the shed. The headlights were still flickering and the handwarmers didn't seem to be getting any warmer. I stopped by one Polaris dealer on the way home to talk to them about it and they didn't' seem to know anything that might cause it but agreed something wasn't right. A call to another seemed to think it might have just been the severe cold but could be the voltage regulator. I did some searching and came across some info on bag capacitors from a couple years ago but those problems have seen to be fixed?
Has anyone else run across this problem? Any ideas? I didn't bring the sled home but apparently I should have to bring to my dealer... I'm hoping to figure out some things before heading back this weekend. Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks
JP