Hanging Idle and Charging system.

[niclpnut]

Noticed some hanging idle today on the 1100ES pods (K&N and oiled) stg 3 yada yada.

Everything is nice and tight/new boots, no binding or sticky anything...

Carbs synced, seafoam gas treatment and valves adjusted 500 miles ago.

Got to the house and let it idle in the drive for a bit, and checked the plugs. All nice and brown.

I've read most of the posts with hanging idle heading and I don't think I've got an air leak, and judging from plug chops of present and past I'm confident of the jetting and screw adjustment. It does seem to happen more often when warm like everyone else.

Since I had recently replaced the stator (had some richness/stalling issues due to it going out), I decided to check everything once more now that it had some miles on it.

Everything checked out fine initially, but readings for phase 1 started to get wonky as the bike warmed up, and was getting some voltage drops and spikes kinda associated with the idle hanging. Checked/cleaned/replaced all connections/grounds.

The stator tested fine. (thank god )

Pulled the RR and on the first test :




On my meter the 1 represents no current.

No voltage from all three leads.

Just for fun I did the rest of the tests.

Test 2 : 450 mV or .45V from all three leads.
Test 3 : no voltage
Test 4 : avg 465 mV from all three leads

So obviously it failed 2 of 4 tests and is faulty. Could this fluctuation in voltage do to a faulty RR be a potential cause or addition to the problem of a hanging idle?


Thanks,

Nic

[niclpnut]

Series RR is in the works, will have to see if a new RR makes any difference.

Going to try a CE 600 series RR. Not sure of the size of the CE-601-07 but a buddy of mine has one new for his Harley collecting dust, so I'll get a good deal.




Nic

[tom203]

Series RR is in the works, will have to see if a new RR makes any difference.

Going to try a CE 600 series RR. Not sure of the size of the CE-601-07 but a buddy of mine has one new for his Harley collecting dust, Nic

That little R/R ( first post ) is what I call the minis- way too small to inspire confidence- I got two in parts collections off ebay and both failed the simple diode tests. good luck with the harley one, but remember you can always fall back on a Shindengen R/R.