I picked up a 97 ST on Wednesday from a dealer who had filled the tank. Unfortunately there was no owner's manual with it. I am currently waiting for my Clymer's manual to arrive. While riding, (after about 185 miles) the yellow fuel warning light came on. I switched to reserve and within a mile or two, the light came on again. Is this right?
I have no idea about the actual circuit on that vintage - indeed I'm surprised there is a reserve function when there is a low level indicator.
However it would make sense to me that there would be a single detector for the gas level and it should matter not whether tank is operating on reserve or main feed - the sender will still be sensing the same level of gas in the tank.
What may be confusing is why it initially went off when switched to reserve; however since it had only just gone on, the level may be marginal towards turning on the light or not. Stopping on a slope for instance while you switched it could have been enough to get it to go off again. A few more miles (and a different orientation) may have been enough to turn it back on again - there is a capacitor delay built in so it doesn't keep going on & off rapidly as the gas level changes due to sloshing etc
I would think you would actually want it to operate like that (with low light on when on reserve), or potential to forget you are already low.
Again - purely speculative on my part, but seems logical
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