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Melted Negative Battery Terminal

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Start the bike and have a volt meter set at DC volts . Touch the meter probes to the corresponding battery terminals. Should be ( around ) 12.6 to 12.9 at idle. Rev up to around 4,000 RPM and see if the voltage increases as the RPMs rise..should reach around 13.9 to 14.5 as a usual normal range. However if its somewhere around 13.5 or so it is still considered to be an acceptable charge rate.
 
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chuck hahn said:
Start the bike and have a volt meter set at DC volts . Touch the meter probes to the corresponding battery terminals. Should be ( around ) 12.6 to 12.9 at idle. Rev up to around 4,000 RPM and see if the voltage increases as the RPMs rise..should reach around 13.9 to 14.5 as a usual normal range. However if its somewhere around 13.5 or so it is still considered to be an acceptable charge rate.
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Thanks very much and happy new year. I'll do this after I put on the new starter clutch.
 
Melted negative battery post...thats exactly how I bought my latest endeavor, it had nothing to do with the actuall negative circuit on mine, the starter cover shorted to the starter hot post, make sure yours didn't do this, you may have inadvertantly fixed the issue when you removed the starter and reinstalled it without it making the short. Double check the inside of the starter cover for a burn mark, you may have other repairs because of the short, but double check just in case so if it was this, it doesn't do it again.
 
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