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What is Heat Soak?
How to avoid Heat Soak.
Electronic Component Reliablity
The reliability of electronic components
(hall effect sensors, black boxes, diode boards etc.)
reduces with temperature.
If the temperature doubles the failure rate MORE than doubles for the electronic components.
Heat Soak occurs when you stop your bike after a long hard (for the bike) ride. At this point the motor is hot, and has a lot of stored heat energy that it was getting rid of into the passing air. Now that the air has stopped moving, the cooling has been significantly reduced. Your bike is now going to get hotter than it was!
You can reduce this stored heat energy by reducing the strain on the
motor (reduce speed and/or throttle position) for say the last 10
minutes
of your ride. K model owners can fit an extra fan switch and turn that
on
5 minutes before they stop. This reduces the stored heat energy and
therefore
the temperature rise after you stop.
In turn this should increase the reliability of your bikes electronic
components.
I have no idea if this will improve the reliability of the seals, etc.
Any one care to comment?
You can e-mail me at Yahoo. Dated 22 November 2000
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