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kckershovel
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I'm not sure if I have a bad battery or charging system. Should I be able to remove the negative Battery cable with the bike running and it continue to run? Mine dies if I pull the - cable with it running......
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What you describe is one of the best ways to fry your charging system.
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kckershovel
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Thank You for the help.
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kckershovel
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So is the bring to 2500 rpm and check for 13+ volts at the battery the correct way to test? I'm new to GS's
That's not "help", it's sound advice ! How about taking a more conservative route to checking your charging system ? Go here ,do the quick test, and report all 6 results(note that you must with fully charged battery)
http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?p=1272192#post1272192
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kckershovel
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Key off 12.56 key on not running 12.1 running all rpm 12.1 key off 12.56
Not busting your chops, but what was your thought process in pulling the negative lead?
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kckershovel
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To be perfectly honest it is a friends bike and he had done the pull - cable before I talked with him. I'm not sure what his thinking was. I told him I would ask so I did. Since then I have walked him through the testing procedures over the phone and the stator failed the ohm resistance test.
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kckershovel
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That is what I thought. That is why I asked but it turns out his stator was bad anyway. We will be putting a stator in it in the next few days.
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theresthatguy
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And what about the R/R?
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kckershovel
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He is trying to spend as little as possible. How do we test the R/R? I know allot of people change both at the same time.
If the stator is bad, it is because the R/R killed it whether the R/R survived or not. So why do you need to test the R/R?
I suppose a stator could go bad for other (physical) reasons, and not due to burning out from a bad R/R, right?If the stator is bad, it is because the R/R killed it whether the R/R survived or not. So why do you need to test the R/R?
Have you even see a bad Stator that was not burned?
But to your point, you are correct, that is my assumption.
I'll take all wagers if it is an untouched OEM stator that it is bad it is smoked.
Honestly, I have not experienced enough failed stators to say otherwise, but I have read one or two stories along the way of failures due to "hard knocks".Have you even see a bad Stator that was not burned?
But to your point, you are correct, that is my assumption.
I'll take all wagers if it is an untouched OEM stator that it is bad it is smoked.
I wouldn't even bet a colleague's salary on the R/R being good and the stator bad due to some unknown trauma.
Why do people do such things?
<edit> I see it was your friend who was the first one to do it, but he picked it up from somewhere.
I suppose it was an old diagnostic technique from generator/dynamo days (in fact, it would have worked, back then).
There's nothing more lethal than an old trick like that, applied to modern (or relatively modern) electrical systems.
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