Fried Stator Poll

[posplayr]

I've never had any stator problems, might be the Honda RR I'm using doesn't have bad diodes.

Well it is apparent that there is coupling between the R/R performance and the stator failures. This poll is to get a rough idea of what percentage of the GS population is being affected.

And as Duange notes, if you check the Honda Poll there are very few incidences of a Honda 6 wire R/R burning a stator.

Based on today, poll there are 10 which have claimed no stator issues out of a total of 47 volts. That means there have been an 80% stator failure affliction rate for the active population of GS's.

 

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[DanTheMan]

To add to the poll (since I already put my answer in it), I just replaced the replacement stator I got from TKent. One leg burned out, due to a faulty connection. A wire that I should have soldered and didn't was loose in the crimped butt splice, and as far as I can tell, that, or the massive downpour I was riding in the day it happened caused the stator failure. Now, I have the stator off of my parts 850 on the bike, it's a little blackened, but putting out acceptable voltage (86.7vac @4k rpm) and 13.1-13.9 vdc @5k rpm, so hopefully it will last for awhile.

 

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[LoopGaroo]

Mine just burned out with +30,000 miles

 

[Guest]

Had one that was actually a burned stator. have had several others with charging problems, but it was always a bad power or ground wire from the R/R

 

[JEEPRUSTY]

There was no option for 60,000+ with no problem yet.
BTW, that goes for 2 of them so far.

Daniel

I have one with 67000 kms on it and it is fine.

 

[TooManyToys]

23k miles and fine.

No place on the poll ........

 

[Griffin]

....Based on today, poll there are 10 which have claimed no stator issues out of a total of 47 volts. That means there have been an 80% stator failure affliction rate for the active population of GS's.

It means that 80% of respondents have had bad stators. It does not mean 80% of the stators on GSs have failed. Many of us have owned or currently own multiple bikes. I myself have owned eight GSs over the years.

I have replaced three stators. The original one on my GS700 (I bought the bike new) went out at about 62,000 miles. The replacement went out at 9,000 miles during a pouring rainstorm where the bike was ridden through standing water several times.

The stator on my 1000G went out at about 24,000 miles. It was the original one. The replacement is fine at 34,000 miles.

I picked up a GS550ES with about 7,000 miles on it, original stator on it. I sold the bike at 8,000 miles, it was fine. My GS450E (12,000 miles), my GS750E (sold with 18,000 miles), my 1150E (wrecked with 24,000 miles), and my GS1000E (32,000 miles) all have/had the original stators on them. My 850G still had the original stator on it when it was sold last year.

So my failure rate is 2 out of 8 bikes had failures, one of them had two failures..

 

[bwringer]

My 850G's original stator finally gave up the ghost at 102,000 miles -- I think that was the fall before last. The bike had been wearing a Honda R/R since about 45,000 miles, and that R/R is still in the bike and working perfectly.

The replacement stator, from a 2001 GS500, is doin' just ducky at somewhere over 114,000 miles and climbing!

No burned/bad connectors, or any other issues -- I think age and heat simply broke down the insulation on the stator.

 

[Crazy_Russian]

almost 40k and still has the original stator... r/r is a different story

 

[posplayr]

Bump list any fried stator and what size bike and how you tend to ride.

Bigger bikes have to get rid of more heat and so tend to fry stators more often. Riding high RPM at slower speeds is also worse (like going through the twisties).

 

[Grimly]

Two GS850s
One bike, a '79, has had two stators replaced in 140Kmiles.
Second bike, an '80 has had two stators in 250 Kmiles.
Both bikes have been wearing Honda CB250 reg/recs for the last 20 years and only one stator failed since that point - that was a factory original which just died of old age, I reckon.
The oddest failure had nothing detectable wrong with it when it was removed - no shorts, resistance fine on the windings, but it just wouldn't output at all.

 

[850GT_Rider]

The stator on my 850 let loose earlier this year. One leg just quit generating voltage. Not burned. Mileage unknown - speedos replaced by both me and PO(s).

 

[tkent02]

You poll is lacking. How about a selection for never had one fail after about 200,000 miles on several GSes? I have bought a few bikes with dead charging systems, but never had one fail.

 

[Lawn Monkey]

GS750E , bad stator about 10,000 miles bike was 3 years old:|

 

[dorkburger]

Oops, I voted 10 to15k miles, but its null and void...remembered later that my cycle had 1200 miles on when I bought it, but I had been crashed, and had an 1100 stator cover on it, so mileage cannot be confirmed. It also had spliced wires at the R/R connection-wires were twisted together and taped. The connections were repaired about a year before total failure...200 miles from home. I was new to gs charging woes then, and didnt know to do the full check.

 

[850 Combat]

I've never had a burned stator. Probably a total of 40,000 miles of GS riding, but probably no more than 10,000 on any one bike. I will say, that each of mi GS except for one had marginal charging. when I checked it. In all cases save for one, cleaning connections, adding grounds, and putting a Shindengen R/R on it solved the charging issues. ALL of the bikes charged well enough that the marginal charging was not known until I went looking for it. The bikes all charged enough to keep the battery charged, but never got over 13 or so volts. Most of them also had visibly overcooked stator and R/R wiring connectors.

 

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