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Charging Problem + Highbeam Indicator dead

Whew! Looked at my connections again, cleaned some more stuff off and made sure my stator connections were solid. Turns out that did the trick! Battery charges now and I'm going to replace it and also think about putting in a new R/R.

Thanks all for the help as frustrating as it may have been for you, especially since it was such a minor thing!
 
Great! I was going to write back suggesting just that. I recently had some low charging voltage issues that were fixed by simply running a new heavier ground grin the r/r to the battery. Fixed it right up!

This is good advice to others to Shasta examine the quality if the current connections before trying anything else.

Glad you had you got it working!
Bwanna

sam000lee said:
Whew! Looked at my connections again, cleaned some more stuff off and made sure my stator connections were solid. Turns out that did the trick! Battery charges now and I'm going to replace it and also think about putting in a new R/R.

Thanks all for the help as frustrating as it may have been for you, especially since it was such a minor thing!
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Uggh. Okay - so I thought this was resolved but I guess not. I have been riding around the past few days, and the battery charges SOMETIMES. Before I leave the house I test the voltage across the battery during revs, and it increases as it should.
Two times I have taken it out for an afternoon/evening which includes riding it around for at least 60 miles and stopping, turning off the engine, doing something coming back and starting it up and everything works fine. Then the next day I go to start it up and the battery is dead. I charge it for an hour, start it up, ride around for half an hour and the battery has charged.

It seems like the battery is charging MOST of the time, and then every once in a while doesn't charge and leaves me stranded somewhere where I can charge the battery for a couple of hours to start the bike.

I've triple checked grounds/connections and everything is clean and tight. I tested the 3 wires across the stator, getting a reasonable signal from everything.

Could this be an R/R problem? It seems to me like its bad connections somewhere but I've gone through pretty much every connection.
I thought maybe it was discharging somehow when the bike was sitting so I've been disconnecting the battery terminals when I park it.
 
sam000lee said:
Uggh. Okay - so I thought this was resolved but I guess not. I have been riding around the past few days, and the battery charges SOMETIMES. Before I leave the house I test the voltage across the battery during revs, and it increases as it should.
Two times I have taken it out for an afternoon/evening which includes riding it around for at least 60 miles and stopping, turning off the engine, doing something coming back and starting it up and everything works fine. Then the next day I go to start it up and the battery is dead. I charge it for an hour, start it up, ride around for half an hour and the battery has charged.

It seems like the battery is charging MOST of the time, and then every once in a while doesn't charge and leaves me stranded somewhere where I can charge the battery for a couple of hours to start the bike.

I've triple checked grounds/connections and everything is clean and tight. I tested the 3 wires across the stator, getting a reasonable signal from everything.

Could this be an R/R problem? It seems to me like its bad connections somewhere but I've gone through pretty much every connection.
I thought maybe it was discharging somehow when the bike was sitting so I've been disconnecting the battery terminals when I park it.
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You should mount a cheap LED volt meter. They can be had for less that $5 (at least till this is solved).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/330904912319?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

I woudl say do a quick test, but seems you have been doing that (more or less).
It sounds like a temperature dependent problem which would normally be associated with the Stator shorting out. Have you done the revised Phase B tests?

Check voltage leg to leg and leg to ground (all around) at 5K RPM? IIRC that was a previous suggestion.
 
Oh yeah, awesome those will definitely come in handy. I'm going to go ahead and put a new stator in since. Unfortunately I'm moving today and am putting her into storage for a couple months so I'm going to have to wait a while (or at least until labor day).

Talk to you all then!
 
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