Datatool system 3 battery question

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

i would remove the alarm as they're so bloody annoying.
Don't remove the battery or the alarm will die in an annoying way and you'll need to remove it.

If you are maintaining battery then run the optimate lead outside or something.

so would i but it lives outside and is a requirment for the insurance

ive got a halfords battery charger that is waterproof but i cant get power outside without having a door/window open. Cant be arsed to drill a hole as the walls are silly hard. Just wondered if there was an easy way to do it. Seems not.

After posting on this thread yesterday I got woken at 6am by the better half this morning as the bike alarm was going off. It stared to go in cycles. Alarm goes off - I push the off button on the fob - It resets to on again - Wait 2 minutes - Alarm goes off. I go out to try and start the bike but the battery just turns it over very slowly. So with the other half on fob control I shoot into work to see what I need to do today. Not too much so home I come to do some work.

Tooled up, I decide that I need the battery out and will remove the alarm as per my own advice earlier in this thread. Into service mode, take off the seats and cut the cable ties holding the alarm and wrap the unit is a cloth. Problem 1, can't find the alarm fuse. OK. Go to unplug the unit. Problem 2 The alarm seems to have no central plug and looks like it has been asimilated into the bike wiring by the borg. Ok. Lets take the internal plug out I think. Problem 3, the alarm case has those security hex bolts that I do not have a set of keys for. Sod it I think (the car said it was -12.5 degrees) I disconect the bike battery and remove it. The alarm is still bleeping at the normal 15 second intervals as it does in service mode so I push the alarm fob and all is quiet. The alarm is off and I guess the interal battery is too cold to be bothered to do anything. I will wait and see if this has caused me a problem when I reinstall the battery but not bothered as it is too cold to worry about it.

Hmmm interesting

Just checked the battery date and it is the original battery I think (2002). The cold has killed the battery and confused the alarm. The battery was showing 11.84v

Think ill just pop it on charge and leave it well be didnt want all that hassle tbh.

I needed to put in a perminant accumate lead anyway so the job is now half done. I was going to do it when I did a service on the bike which will be done when the weather gets a little warmer. I would leave well alone too!