Just wondering for future reference regarding reg/rec

[leftlostcommonsense]

I got it. Thanks for the help it's greatly appreciated.

[posplayr]

No, it's all there. We call it the "headlight loop" because that is where it used to go. When Suzuki stopped installing a headlight switch on the US-market bikes (I think Canadian bikes, too), they just used a new sub-harness with that short loop feeding current back to the main harness instead of the old sub-harness that took those wires to a second set of contacts on the headlight switch. The basic principle was that when you turned the headlight OFF, you also disconnected one phase of the stator, reducing its output.

Yes, it's only "one connector", but remember that everywhere you see a connector, there are actually THREE interfaces that can get dirty and corrode. Starting with a wire, there is the interface where the terminal gets crimped on, then the interface where that terminal touches another terminal on the other side of the connector, and finally where that terminal is crimped onto the next wire. In the stock configuration, the stator wire connects to the white/green wire. There are three interfaces there. The white/green wire goes up to your "one connector" to the short fold-back loop. There are three interfaces there. At the other end of that short loop, it connects to the white/red wire. Yep, another three interfaces. Finally, back near the R/R, the white/red wire connects to the R/R with another three interfaces. A total of TWELVE interfaces. If you eliminate that loop by simpy joining the white/green wire from the stator to the white/red input to the R/R, you will have only three interfaces, greatly reducing the number of potential failure points.

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With a loop you have to double the contact because it is out and back. On the gs1100e for example there were also more than one connector and the same connector was used to power the coils from the ignition switch.