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I have always felt that the charging system did not work properly. At the end of last summer I put in a new battery and kept it on a trickle charger all the time. If I ride the bike for a couple of hours and do some starting and stopping of the motor it seemed like the battery wasn’t staying charged. It wasn’t that big of a problem because I would put it on the trickle charger each night.
I added a pair of driving lights to my bike so I might be seen easier (to many cars pulling out in front of me). My wife and I rode about 2 hours to the lake and spent the day. We started back home and about 20 minutes from home I had to stop at a stop light and the bike died while I was slowing down with the clutch disengaged. I popped the clutch and the bike started back up. I noticed that the head lights were getting dimmer before this happened. I turned off the driving lights and kept the rpms up until I got home.
I think the R/R is bad. I went thru the Stator fault finding chart and here are my findings.
My tach is broken and I guessed at the rpms when instructed to use a set rpm.
Test A: Less than 13 volts, and I could not get a steady reading when connecting to the R/R but it was always a negative number.
Test B: 0.8 in first test, no reading in second test, and between 87 and 91 volts in the last test (guessing at the rpms).
Test C: Red to Positve on R/R and black to the yellows, all read 1. Black to positive and red to the yellows: one read 582, second was 1, and third was 578. I got similar results on the reverse test.
Could someone please confirm that my R/R is most likely the problem? I don’t have a lot of money to spend and I want to try and fix it the first time. If it is the R/R, what is the least expensive way to fix it?
Thanks
Swedge61
I added a pair of driving lights to my bike so I might be seen easier (to many cars pulling out in front of me). My wife and I rode about 2 hours to the lake and spent the day. We started back home and about 20 minutes from home I had to stop at a stop light and the bike died while I was slowing down with the clutch disengaged. I popped the clutch and the bike started back up. I noticed that the head lights were getting dimmer before this happened. I turned off the driving lights and kept the rpms up until I got home.
I think the R/R is bad. I went thru the Stator fault finding chart and here are my findings.
My tach is broken and I guessed at the rpms when instructed to use a set rpm.
Test A: Less than 13 volts, and I could not get a steady reading when connecting to the R/R but it was always a negative number.
Test B: 0.8 in first test, no reading in second test, and between 87 and 91 volts in the last test (guessing at the rpms).
Test C: Red to Positve on R/R and black to the yellows, all read 1. Black to positive and red to the yellows: one read 582, second was 1, and third was 578. I got similar results on the reverse test.
Could someone please confirm that my R/R is most likely the problem? I don’t have a lot of money to spend and I want to try and fix it the first time. If it is the R/R, what is the least expensive way to fix it?
Thanks
Swedge61
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