thanks for your thoughts B, but as i noted, and this was experienced firsthand, even though the bike
can crank when a demand for amps is presented to the battery, the fact is that with a slightly resistive connection between the batt and the generator, the voltage available AT STARTUP (i.e. what the computer sees at startup) MAY remain lower than it's design spec, ergo it will effect electronics that are caling for minimal volts/amps to give correct signal.
Yeah, when the starter demands amps, it will pull them... but an electronic circuit that relies on miliamps, and 5v will NOT be satisfied with the resistive connection.
I have seen firsthand and seen many instances of an appearantly "good" connection actually being not so good, rendering delicate circuits with minimal values, and causing glitches that a perfectly clean and solid connection does not render.
Jim's direction as to remove and make clean every connection, is spot on, it eliminates all guesswork from the equation, and by the example I noted where when we reset idle to be acceptable, after completly cleaning and reinstalling the cables, the idle went up by the value we added prior to the cleaning...
It cannot be disputed in the example i witnessed, that the connection compromise didn't matter... it was the cause.
again, ymmv
note again, I am not talking about a
corroded connection, I am talking about a connection that has a resistive coating at the terminal and wire lug. it is invisible, but it exists, kinda like anodizing metel. it is resistive in nature, but when a high current demand is called upon at the connection, it will deliver, it just does'nt allow correct charging, or minimal voltage exchange in the rest of the batt function.