Today(sunday) I set about getting myself ready for work, warm kit on, thick gloves, wolly neck tube etc etc
it was cold out, there was a little frost on the ground but wasn’t as cold as it could have been(it was 1pm BTW)
push the little grey button on my alarm fob and WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH, fumble for the button again to try and shut it off. bugger, that’s not right.
try again, same result, so I leave it, 30 seconds or so the alarm should reset but instead WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH, I’d started swearing aloud by this point
cue 5 minutes of me trying to start my bike and stop the alarm from sounding. no joy on either front. not even a flicker when i turn the key and when i leave it alone all hell breaks loose. now the neighbours are looking out of the windows to see why I’m shouting and cursing loudly into my helmet between random outbursts of high pitched shrieking from my bike.
found my alarm manual, no phone numbers, on the website “please email us with any enquiries”. useless as a chocolate fireguard.
eventually I decided it ust be the battery, despite the fact that it worked just fine for the 30 minute commute both ways yesterday in the same weather, if not colder.
plugged it into my optimate and teh alarm stoppped sounding, still couldn’t get it to flash the indicators or do anything of any sort of intelligence so I kicked it and called my misses to come over in the car. my optimate went to green straight away, not even to orange first.
so, is it my battry dying on me for no good reason? or is it the cold getting into my electrics? or do any of you have a better idea?