Is it OK to just replace the self resetting fuses with normal ones?
I seem to be having a lot of issues with my '22 R Carbon's electronics. First it was the fan not turning on causing it to overheat which overheated my engine and caused coolant to spray out of the reservoir hose. Turned out it was the self resetting fuse, I just pulled it out and put in a normal 8 cent non resetting one.
FF about a year later and it was bike engine dying which turned out to be a fuse again. Replaced it and issue resolved.
FF like 8 months later and just yesterday I went to turn on bike and everything turned on fine but hitting ignition switch literally did nothing. Not even a solenoid click, it's as if I hadn't even pressed the ignition, bike not registering the button press. Battery was fine and charged, electronics all on, headlight on...no ignition (of course I also didn't have it in gear, etc).
Busted out my hex key, went into the fuse box and fiddled with the fuses and switched some relays around and it worked.
I feel like the bike itself has some issues with electronics and fuses blowing out from overheating. I noticed that some of the 10A fuses were blackened by the prongs sticking out of the red plastic casing as if it heated and started to melt the plastic casing around it. The fuse themselves didn't seem to trip, but that is definitely a sign that they're getting pretty hot. Hot enough to start to char the plastic.
Yesterday, I finally just pulled out the remaining 2 self resetting 10As and replaced them with the normal fuses. I also tossed out the 2 normal 10As that had some charring around the prong ends. Bike seems to be starting up OK again. I did also take it for a longish bike ride last weekend (3hrs), it was hot and did have fan turn on a lot, maybe it's just pulling too much energy from the fuses and effecting them?