Red idiot light (H) ?

I ended up riding home in the pouring rain and my red H light came on but the digital temperature gauge was at its normal position and after letting the bike cool off a few hrs I went out and started it up and it’s still on as soon as I start up,does anyone have an idea what’s going on,could the rain caused the red light to come on ? And since it stays on after it’s cooled down is there a reset for the dash idiot lights which I’ll do after a day or so after it drys up?

I do have a question for you – when the light came on, what is the temperature gauge showing that the bike was running hot (EDIT- sorry, now I see it was running at the proper temp gauge wise) I actually had the gauge show me three out of the four LCD bars when I was sitting at a red light in the recent past, and what it wound up being was a missing fuse in the fan slot. It was the first time that that occurred in all the time I’ve owned the bike. I put a 10 A fuse in the slot, proved that that was the problem because now the fan runs, even though I wasn’t aware it was not earlier. As for the light, that’s something I don’t have a good answer for. The other thing I checked with the bike cool was also to make sure that there was enough coolant in the overflow reservoir, and I opened the radiator cap to make sure there was enough coolant in there as well.  I would wonder if you disconnected the battery temporary to clear the memory in the ECU, reconnect, and see if the light goes off.

Erdoc48 wrote:

I do have a question for you – when the light came on, what is the temperature gauge showing that the bike was running hot (EDIT- sorry, now I see it was running at the proper temp gauge wise) I actually had the gauge show me three out of the four LCD bars when I was sitting at a red light in the recent past, and what it wound up being was a missing fuse in the fan slot. It was the first time that that occurred in all the time I’ve owned the bike. I put a 10 A fuse in the slot, proved that that was the problem because now the fan runs, even though I wasn’t aware it was not earlier. As for the light, that’s something I don’t have a good answer for. The other thing I checked with the bike cool was also to make sure that there was enough coolant in the overflow reservoir, and I opened the radiator cap to make sure there was enough coolant in there as well.  I would wonder if you disconnected the battery temporary to clear the memory in the ECU, reconnect, and see if the light goes off.

Thank you so much that worked,the ride in the rain was only about two miles and about halfway home I stopped and ran into a store for a minute which I shut the engine off for and when I restarted it the red light came on instantly but the temperature gauge led oval dial was normal so I just continued home,I didn’t smell the hot engine overheating smell so my first thought was the rain caused it somehow,,,Anyways thank you again and enjoy your Sunday