Could a sh775 kill a stator?

[Gorminrider]

Yes, it's hard to hold a poll here, i guess. Good thing to bump it up and capture more results...anyways, thanks for the links I'll slog through em. Looks like someone's already been down every path.

[posplayr]

Yes, it's hard to hold a poll here, i guess. Good thing to bump it up and capture more results...anyways, thanks for the links I'll slog through em.

The poll is a living document and much more objective than some opinions.

[drewpy]

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead, but its been a few years, any consensus on the series shunt debate? I'm trying to decide between FH012AA and sh775 so I don't kill a lithium battery I was leaning towards (and sourced Real not fake sh775) but now ill see what everyone says (new to the GS world)

[Lorenzo]

No need to worry; posts in this board never die, they permeate the 'collective unconscious'...

On the subject, my I suggest you and all newcomers to the GS frame of mind, read a book, called, if I'm not mistaken "Jung and the art of motorcycle maintenance".

On a more prosaic note, go for the Shindengen but do it proppa, with the mandatory Furukawa connectors and the chopping of the green looped wire.

Welcome on board.

[Nessism]

No need to worry; posts in this board never die, they permeate the 'collective unconscious'...

On the subject, my I suggest you and all newcomers to the GS frame of mind, read a book, called, if I'm not mistaken "Jung and the art of motorcycle maintenance".

On a more prosaic note, go for the Shindengen but do it proppa, with the mandatory Furukawa connectors and the chopping of the green looped wire.

Welcome on board.

Shindengen makes both the FH012AA and the SH775, so I agree with your suggestion! Personally, I'd go for the SH775 under normal conditions, but with a lithium battery I'd do some more research first to understand how best to charge them. Some claim that voltage should be limited to 15 VDC for example, in which case both of these mentioned R/R's would be a bad choice.

[Steve]

In your case, it won't matter which one you get, it will be the wrong one for a Lithium battery.

That is, unless there is something new in the Lithium battery world that allows them to use a "standard" charging system.

All of the lithium battery systems I have seen require a specialized charging curve that changes, depending on state of charge. Neither one of the R/R units you mention have that special curve.

What is your incentive for the Lithium battery? Hopefully it's not for the "weight savings". Yeah, it's always good to keep weight down, but based on your other posts, you have an 850, which is the heaviest GS made. Reducing its weight by 7 or 8 pounds will not make a noticeable difference. You will be better off getting a good AGM (that's construction style, not a brand name) battery and using the SH775 R/R.

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[Lorenzo]

@Nessism sorry I did not specify: the SH775;
I agree with Steve also, on the matter of the battery; I've read enough literature to consider the AGM type, the best of both worlds. Some specimen with good reports by fellow bikers, point to a yellow cased one, incidentally with double posts (so two + and two - no need to bother the main wires for the odd ancillary install).

[OldVet66]

I ran a damaged stator with a Compu-Fire for a year before it finally failed. Series R/R's are definitely easy on stators.

[Grimly]

I ran a damaged stator with a Compu-Fire for a year before it finally failed. Series R/R's are definitely easy on stators.

Same here. I quite deliberately left in place an old stator which showed signs of being a bit heat-stressed from the OEM regulator, just to see how it would last with the SH-775. So far, it's still going strong.