still suffering charging issues/complications

[paulie]

both wires attached to rectifier, had to change head of single wire due to connector not matching up.

[paulie]

all 3 wires from stator plugged in as well. I did check the stator, looks fine, coils don't look burnt/broken. Would pulling the clutch cover when trying to gain access to the stator maybe have throw something off?

[paulie]

alright, I'll stop loading up the feed now. last and final picture, i traced the wire back to the fuse box which also leads to one of the 4 connectors. YELLOW head behind duct taped front one on right side bottom of the fuse box (blue 15 keeps blowing btw). All in all, I'm not entirely sure what the last owner/mechanic did with the wiring, so if you guys see a possible flaw or a big "no-no" in terms of wiring, let me know. If you need more detailed pictures or pictures of different areas of wiring, I will be happy to fetch them for you

[Nessism]

Hard to tell what's going on there but charging system 101 class teaches to do the following:

1) Wire the stator wires directly into the R/R. Bypass the existing harness completely.

2) Connect R/R positive output to fuse block. Clean the connector terminals to reduce voltage drop.

3) Make sure your R/R is solidly grounded. Use a jumper if needed to make sure.

Please confirm the following and then report back...

[paulie]

okay I'll check! 2 questions though, when you say bypass the harness, what about the 4th plug on the rectifier? just plug the three stator wires into any three random rectifier plugs? (inside of the white plastic housing) and also, ground out the rectifier how? I'm still new to this, please keep the flogging down to a minimum lol.

[tom203]

Have a look here-in a hurry head to step 1 at your own risk

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showpost.php?p=1138531&postcount=1

[Nessism]

okay I'll check! 2 questions though, when you say bypass the harness, what about the 4th plug on the rectifier? just plug the three stator wires into any three random rectifier plugs? (inside of the white plastic housing) and also, ground out the rectifier how? I'm still new to this, please keep the flogging down to a minimum lol.

What you have is a regulator & rectifier combined. Typically denoted as a R/R.

There should be 5 electrical connections: 3 stator inputs (in no particular order), a power output, and a ground. If you have only 4, then either the ground is though the R/R body, or you have a two phase R/R (unlikely).

As for how to ground the unit, bolt it to the frame. Or use a jumper wire from the body of the unit to the frame (or battery neg. terminal).

Hope this helps.

[paulie]

Ok, I'll come back with the results, thank you

[posplayr]

What you have is a regulator & rectifier combined. Typically denoted as a R/R.

There should be 5 electrical connections: 3 stator inputs (in no particular order), a power output, and a ground. If you have only 4, then either the ground is though the R/R body, or you have a two phase R/R (unlikely).

As for how to ground the unit, bolt it to the frame. Or use a jumper wire from the body of the unit to the frame (or battery neg. terminal).

Hope this helps.

Ed there are a lot of harpy single phase r/r out there.

[paulie]

i fixed her! now i just need to some how find a clutch cover gasket and possibly a petcock

[posplayr]

i fixed her! now i just need to some how find a clutch cover gasket and possibly a petcock

You are not getting away that easy!!! What did you do??

[paulie]

haha of course! and i looked at the wires leading from the rectifier to the white plastic housing and it was yellow yellow yellow RED. Put the stator wires connected to the harness to yellow yellow yellow and the remaining power wire which i traced back to the red wire on the rectifier's red wire. It was just a matter of me figuring out the whole "stator is yellow", "red is power". have any ideas where i could find those parts by the way? I can't wait to bring her to work and wash her up and make her pretty. I will post pics too!

[posplayr]

haha of course! and i looked at the wires leading from the rectifier to the white plastic housing and it was yellow yellow yellow RED. Put the stator wires connected to the harness to yellow yellow yellow and the remaining power wire which i traced back to the red wire on the rectifier's red wire. It was just a matter of me figuring out the whole "stator is yellow", "red is power". have any ideas where i could find those parts by the way? I can't wait to bring her to work and wash her up and make her pretty. I will post pics too!

If there is no black wire, then the case of the R/R has to be ground and make sure it is connected to the battery and frame.

[paulie]

to everyone that contributed: thank you so much for your help, you guys made this a lot easier and helped make my day, and probably my summer.

[paulie]

There was a black wire that leaded back to the fuse box. Connected that too from the start but i checked with my multimeter, getting 13-14 Volts while operating.