2009 850 XP – A little background, was loading up to go down to the deer camp on labor day and the battery (1 year old) was dead, or at least not charged enough to start it even though it had only been sitting a couple of weeks. Not a big deal, hooked up the charger for a few minutes and it fired up and was fine the rest of the day.

Headed back down to the camp this morning and it started and ran fine when I loaded it up, but when I went to unload it, it had magically turned into a paper weight. Got back home, hooked up the charger and it went straight to float, voltage was 12.4 and even with the charger hooked up it won’t turn over.

Here’s where it starts getting weird. When the key is turned to On there’s no fuel pump noise, and a clicking that I traced to the Chassis Relay. Sometimes it’s constant, sometimes it does it a couple of times, and sometimes nothing. It would also start clicking if I tried to turn on the headlights (didn’t come on) or pulled the brake lever.

I swapped out the Chassis Relay with the Bumper Light Relay to no avail, and the check engine light is not on. After a few minutes on with the charger (on float) the lights did turn on and I think the starter clicked so I’m thinking/hoping it’s just a bad battery.

I set the charger to reconditioning to see if that helps, but that’ll take a while. Anybody ever experienced anything like this or have any suggestions on what else to check if it’s not the battery? I’ve got a multi-meter and a repair manuel, just not sure where to start.