**** Update****
Not good news, i'm afraid.
Screen black out has happened again.....twice on the same day.
There is however, a pattern emerging.
It appears to be due to engine heat.
The first time it happened was at the DGR ride-out and it was a hot day combined with lots of slow riding due to all the hundreds of bikes taking part in the ride.
Yesterday was a similar hot day. The tar was wet and sticky on the road. The air was uncharacteristically warm for the UK. I set off on my ride in a relaxed kind of way with the occasional 'whoosh' here and there, but after about 15 minutes I encountered some stationery traffic going through a small village and I could really start to feel the heat coming from the engine. The traffic wasn't at a standstill for long and I got moving again I then began to notice the screen starting to flicker and get what looks like black lines running randomly across it. It goes on for about 30 seconds and then the screen went black. Same as last time.
The bike is running fine. The warning lights such as turn signal lights are working, but no LCD display, so no speedo/milometer or fuel gauge etc... which is a REAL pain. The police are keen here at the weekend and gas stations are few and far between in the hills round here.
I get to my lunch stop after another 40 minutes of riding and the screen is still dead. I leave the bike parked up for about an hour and it's in the shade.
I go to start her up and the screen is working fine, so I make a note of my fuel and I set off......all good again until about an hour into the ride and i'm riding slow through a village followed by a set of traffic lights and once more, I can start to feel the heat bleeding out on to my legs from the engine......then the screen dies on me again.
So.... It's got to be due to heat build up, but where is the weak link in the system?
Do the idiot lights at the sides of the LCD display have their own power supply or are they on the same circuit board as the LCD display?
The heat is much more apparent under the gas tank and out to the sides rather than where the display unit, so that's making me wonder if the problem component is not the display unit but the wiring loom under the tank??
Any thoughts?.