rectifier swap

[ericevans14]

I recently swapped the rectifier from a Suzuki GS450 Kokusan Denki RS2142 into my 82 gs1100gk by directly hooking it up to the rectifier w/r to green and etc i noticed when i started the bike that it was overcharging at 15 volts with the head light on does anyone have any idea what i can do to step down the voltage?

[Nessism]

Either you hooked it up wrong or it's broken.

BTW, the stock unit is a combination rectifier and regulator unit.

[SqDancerLynn1]

I would suspect you have it wired wrong.. What year was the 450 ?

[ericevans14]

its an 83 model i believe, i just wired them directly to the stator all colors except the green/white and red/white matched up, but i will wire it up correctly tomorrow

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