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GrapeApe, if my guess is right and a relay fails or is shorting out, the bike would not be able to start. If the push back to the pits, or the mechanic jacking around under the seat bumped something back to where it's making contact, the electrical system would work. So activeMX may be on to something.
I don't think the battery was drained. I think that was what RD was hoping for but I don't think it was the case. If it was, they wouldn't have been able to start it in the pits without changing the battery.
Lastly, I'm happy to have KTM investing into this sport. So whoever blasted KTM's as having faulty machines can go FY. Only one way to get to the top and that is to start from scratch. KTM will have more championships to come. It takes time and work to get there. Short sighted people don't see that.
It's certainly possible they had a loose wire, charging system or not; it's not an uncommon thing on the estart bikes. But generally you get nothing when you hit the button. I can't tell from the video whether he blew through the battery spinning a bike that wouldn't fire, or he was getting nothing when hitting the button.
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My OP had a basis in my belief if you're going to report "Observations" about something you might want to find out much more than he really did before reporting and giving some people the impression KTM electric start doesn't work when it needs to.
To be blunt, it's silly to me in this day and age to mention RD flooding his bike when the injectors won't spray fuel unless they are powered by something. A bad relay, lose wire or too low a battery will prevent that. There's no AP diaphragm that helps spray fuel like a carb had.
I'm not educated enough to weight in an an EFI flooded engine so I'll humbly bow out of this thread at this point.
The question you posed was to elicit an answer on why I brought up the total loss system.....or was it? (this is a rhetorical question)
If you didn't want an answer you shouldn't have posted the question.
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