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Voltage Regulator

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The voltage regulator is a separate piece on my GS400. At any rate, its kinda bad. (during charging test where 14 and lower is failure) mine does 13.7 My headlight is kinda dim. The stator/rectifier are in very good shape, and without the regulator in place, pulls a good 18+ volts at 5000 rpm.

Is there a seperate regulator I can pull off another bike? Also, I noticed that all it is, is 2 resistors and 2 transistors. I can make that, but I don't know what resistors to use. I can't find out what I've got, because they filled the whole regulator case with resin. Any insight?
 
at what RPM are you getting the 13.7volts?
13.7 is acceptable bulb type and age will have a effect oin the brightness, and bad connections and wire degradation will also.
 
I'd go through and clean all the connections on the bike, then run your tests again. You could just have corroded connectors. The headlight should be pretty bright at 13+ volts.
 
this is 13.7 volts at 5000 RPM, with the headlight off, per the instruction manuals. The bulb is the newest that i can find, and I cleaned the connections when I put it in
 
Sounds sort of ok.

Sounds sort of ok.

I would do a volt test on the stator. if that is not the problem see if the the regulator is the problem. Sounds like the rectifier is doing its job.....keeping the volts in check.

to find more volts look at the stator, regulator, and those darn connections.
 
Lookl in the tips section under My reg modification. You can replace your two pieces with a one piece reg/rect combo unit
 
SqDancerLynn1 said:
Lookl in the tips section under My reg modification. You can replace your two pieces with a one piece reg/rect combo unit
Click to expand...

I might just have to. I kinda wanna go the "as cheap as possible" route :D
 
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