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what would make the wires from the rectifier, to the harness and further up hot as hell!!?
 
Current going through resistance.

In the case of your bike (what bike was that, by the way?), the resistance is probably in the form of dirty connections.

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jason1977 said:
what would make the wires from the rectifier, to the harness and further up hot as hell!!?
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Is rectifer hooked up directly to stator and battery? If not, it should be. Otherwise you are chasing gremlins you'll never find.
 
emjay said:
Or maybe current NOT going through resistance! ;)
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Nope. Either way you can accomplish that would not produce heat.

1. NO CURRENT going through resistance. Simply nothing happening, therefore, no heat.
2. Lots of current, but NO RESISTANCE. With the (relatively small) amount of current that our bikes are capable of producing, and the trivial amount of resistance imposed by the size wire in use, it's just not going to get that warm.

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Ah, I think he meant that the heat is a result of conversion of electrical energy to heat energy because of resistance. Some current is lost in the circuit, because of resistance, which becomes heat. That current that became heat, did not make it through the resistance. Therefore, the heat is actually from current NOT passing through resistance, but getting converted to heat by that resistance

Current is decreased by increasing resistance. That lost energy is converted to heat. There is no heat from current that passes through the resistance, only heat from the current that is lost :)
 
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thank you to everyone who replied to my question, sorry for not fully explaining. it is a 82 1100gl. im not sure if it is connected to the stator and the battery, it goes to wire hareness that spits off to the stator and the rest of the harness. i have talked to a few jap bike mechanics today. they a;ll say rec is bad and to replace it and i should be good.
 
Hi,

Before you start throwing parts and money at it, do all the proper tests, clean the electrical connections and grounds, including the fuse box.


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