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So I'm guilty of watching a youtube video on electrical motorcycle troubleshooting.
Since my bike never starts when I attempt to start it (SC snatching) it's difficult to test the charging system when increasing rpm's.
On my last ride the battery voltage was 12.83 at rest. When I returned after a 70 mile ride, it was 8.63. Headlight was barely on, but the bike still idled at red lights. I trickle charged another battery and put that in for the ride on Sunday in the reverse direction. Same deal, but the battery was around 11.6 afterwards.
So I tried turning the multimeter to the diode test to see if the RR is showing anything. Never knew where this symbol was on the multi-meter or what it looked like. Have no idea what the numbers really mean, just that the 3 stator lead #'s were close to the same. When the negative probe touches the negative lead and the red probe touches the 3 stator lead the # 1 appears?
When I put the positive (red probe) to negative lead on R/R and use the negative probe on the 3 stator leads, I'm getting a consistent # of around 546.
When the negative probe touches red wire coming out of R/R I see a larger number 972. I tried 2 R/R's of unknown history, with one on my not often used bike with the Caltric Stator I mentioned in another electrical post and one I have as a spare, both look like stock 1150 R/R's with the spade leads coming out. Actually the spare has 5 wires coming out, no spades, but similar shape. All stator leads were around the same # 540-550ish, not sure that's an acceptable number or not.
I tried some sort of Ohm test on the stator leads, but can't explain what I did, something with touching one probe to ground and touching the other to the 3 leads, then, touching both probes to the 3 stator leads one at a time. Not sure what Ohm setting to use on the multimeter it has- 20M, 200k, 2k, 200. It's an Innova 3310.
Ordering a new stator and R/R, but was trying to understand what's at fault. Me, then what or both.
Since my bike never starts when I attempt to start it (SC snatching) it's difficult to test the charging system when increasing rpm's.
On my last ride the battery voltage was 12.83 at rest. When I returned after a 70 mile ride, it was 8.63. Headlight was barely on, but the bike still idled at red lights. I trickle charged another battery and put that in for the ride on Sunday in the reverse direction. Same deal, but the battery was around 11.6 afterwards.
So I tried turning the multimeter to the diode test to see if the RR is showing anything. Never knew where this symbol was on the multi-meter or what it looked like. Have no idea what the numbers really mean, just that the 3 stator lead #'s were close to the same. When the negative probe touches the negative lead and the red probe touches the 3 stator lead the # 1 appears?
When I put the positive (red probe) to negative lead on R/R and use the negative probe on the 3 stator leads, I'm getting a consistent # of around 546.
When the negative probe touches red wire coming out of R/R I see a larger number 972. I tried 2 R/R's of unknown history, with one on my not often used bike with the Caltric Stator I mentioned in another electrical post and one I have as a spare, both look like stock 1150 R/R's with the spade leads coming out. Actually the spare has 5 wires coming out, no spades, but similar shape. All stator leads were around the same # 540-550ish, not sure that's an acceptable number or not.
I tried some sort of Ohm test on the stator leads, but can't explain what I did, something with touching one probe to ground and touching the other to the 3 leads, then, touching both probes to the 3 stator leads one at a time. Not sure what Ohm setting to use on the multimeter it has- 20M, 200k, 2k, 200. It's an Innova 3310.
Ordering a new stator and R/R, but was trying to understand what's at fault. Me, then what or both.
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