As above, any one know if there is a fuse for your heated grips and if so where it is on the bike. Both my grips have stopped working.
There isn't a separate fuse for the grips. They are controlled directly from the cluster. There is a main fuse for the instrument cluster, but if that was out it would be blank. Most of the time I've seen it be the grips that are bad. Do you still have a warranty
Surely if both grips have failed it's mire likely to be the starter/grip button. Are modern Ducatis wired with a Canbus system ?
I thought the same thing, that it wouldn't be the grips, but like I said I have two buddies with mutleys that the grips went tits up, both of them. If jcmental can start his bike it's not the starter switch. Yes these bikes are Canbus, many functions are transferred from the cluster to the bus, like the signaling for the rear turn signals.
Thanks for the advice, yes still under warranty (10 months old) when I press the starter button to turn them on it tells me that there on in the round screen and every few minuets it flashes up that there on and what level there on at low, med high. I thought with them both not working it may be a fuse or may be if there earthed at the same point it could be an earth. every thing else on the bike works fine just no heat from the grips, putting them on different temperatures didn't make any difference either.
morning, if grips are not working, then it could be a sign that your alternator (generator in ducati speak) is not working properly and not giving full charge out, on mine the grips started not working even though dash was showing. After a couple of weeks I decided to charge the battery overnight, then the grips worked again for about 1-2 days, then stopped obviously as battery got low. After a month it was obvious the battery was draining/not charging and engine kept stalling. the cure was a generator under warranty - don't bother changing battery the original one should be fine (I bought one and still have it as spare). So try charging battery see if grips ok again, then check battery charge using method in manual, then take to ducati to use their computer to check current flow / canbus - they can diagnose if generator, andor rectifier. bugs
Good call bugs, I'll have a look at my battery voltage on the dash. Thanks I was using high beam a lot yesterday so may be the alternator couldn't keep up.
the dash reading is not all that good to check if the generator is working under load...only I think to check current voltage, to check recharging load on a basic level the best way is to use one of those voltage meters, touch the battery connector and rev it to about 5-6k you should be getting 12 point something... if its like 11 point something then something is amiss and needs the ducati diag computer check. I think the exact procedure and measurements is somewhere in the manual from memory...bugs
It will most likely be the grips themselves, 2013 MTS and on my 3rd set of heated grips - at the moment 3rd time lucky. Seems the elements in the "bought in" grips fail on a regular basis - given the time of year best to check they are working now before it gets really cold.
How would the elements be implicated if they both fail together, though? Unless one fails and takes the fuse out with it? If both stop working at the same time, it has to be something that's common. If the controller in the bike's ECU is checking the battery voltage and deciding it's too low, then that could certainly explain it - and leaving the bike standing for a while and/or running it without the grips might just allow the battery to recover enough for them to operate normally again. The other possibility might be the power transistor that drives them that's died, but then swapping the grips for new ones wouldn't be a fix. I'd have been interested to test the ones you've had removed, to see if they're actually defective or not.
Right I took some readings from the battery with my all singing all dancing multimeter Before I started it, it said 13.03V Running on tick over 14.28v Revving to 5k 14.32 On tick over and revving 13.92v with all the lights on, fans and gps. Turn on the grips and the volts didn't change. is there a relay that gets pulled in when the grips come on? may have burnt out or come lose?
Sorry jcmental, no relay they come directly from an electronic switch. If it wasn't so difficult to unplug them, the easiest way to test is to use your meter on ohms and see if the grips are open ( meaning no resistance). Another way to test, I think you can get to the connection points by peeling back the grips a bit, then turn on the grips and check for voltage, if you have 12v present, it's the grips that are failed. Bugs makes a good point about checking the battery. Andyc there is no fuse for the grips.
Here's a thought, maybe they're connected in series, so if one dies then the other one gets no power?
Here's what I think may have caused it. Ever since I went on a tour of the Ducati factory it got me thinking, they only assemble the bikes there, apart from the cranks that they grind and balance all the other parts are farmed out to other companies. we've just bought bikes made up from loads of bits that were thrown together in some back street workshop and badged as Ducati. That's what's caused it. (it's the Adrian Monk in me)
