Another dead Duc.

[jakem696]

My beloved M696 just died out of the blue yesterday on the freeway. Traveling around 75mph when all of a sudden, I lost all power and noticed the CEL on the dash. Luckily I was on the far right side lane and just pulled over to the side. As soon as i came to pull stop, all electrical power gone.  I tried to re-start the bike, but the dash remained blank. No power, No juice, nada.  I checked all the fuse, everything look normal, no blown fuse. 

So I called the "Ducati Road assistance" number. I found out that there's only one for the entire San diego Area, and I had to wait an our and a half for the guy to come down from north county. BTW, how often can we used the Road assistance service?(Not that I'm planning on waiting that long next time.)
So.. the bike is at GP right now waiting to hear on the verdict.  Funny.. the bike was just there 2 weeks ago on a clutch issue.

[Bladecutter]

Well, it could be something as simple as the battery being bad, or the VR crapping out on you, to something more unpleasant, like the Siemens computer proving how unreliable it is in the 696.

We won't truly know until your shop gets its hands dirty.

BC.

[Raux]

There is a recall on the upper main wiring harness being too close to the vertical cyl. head. says if it burns through it will cause power loss.
Sounds like you probably blew the main 30 amp fuse which is under the tank near the battery not where the other fuses are. You shorted out somewhere and it could be that wire or another.

[jakem696]

Just got it back from the shop.  They're telling me that the positive terminal of the battery came off the battery.
I have never heard of this happened before. I don't think there's enough vibration for these to happen.
I heard of loose connection or even cables coming off connection, but not terminals comimg off of the battery itself.
So... i get a new battery out of this inconvinience.

Oh yeah,  I did get the wiring harness recall done at the 600 miles service.

[red baron]

I've seen the terminals break before.

[Raux]

Just got it back from the shop.  They're telling me that the positive terminal of the battery came off the battery.
I have never heard of this happened before. I don't think there's enough vibration for these to happen.
I heard of loose connection or even cables coming off connection, but not terminals comimg off of the battery itself.
So... i get a new battery out of this inconvinience.

Oh yeah,  I did get the wiring harness recall done at the 600 miles service.

if they did the wiring recall, then they had taken the battery out of the bike... maybe they didn't tighten it down when they  put it back together.

[hypurone]

And they are lucky (if they did indeed leave it loose) they didn't fry your ECU and/or other things. Those parts don't like loose connections, fluctuating voltages etc.... Whew!