W/R and W/G wires, what to do?

[AirCooledFour]

I'm installing a new R/R for the first time and noticed that the white/red and white/green stripped wires seem to have no home after I connect all three stock stator wires to the three yelloow of the R/R.
Do I just cap these off or do they have another purpose?

[bonanzadave]

Yep. Just cap and stow. You just bypassed the headlight switch.

http://www.mtsac.edu/~cliff/storage/gs/GS750_schematic_color.pdf

[AirCooledFour]

Ok

So my headlight is always going to be on?

Yep. Just cap and stow. You just bypassed the headlight switch.

http://www.mtsac.edu/~cliff/storage/gs/GS750_schematic_color.pdf

[bonanzadave]

So my headlight is always going to be on?

Do you have an On / Off switch ?

"You may have noticed that there are a couple of extra wires (circled in yellow
above, white/green and white/red) that I have disconnected, cut back, and taped
off out of the way. In the original circuit, Suzuki ran one leg of the stator through
the headlight switch. The reason being that when you switched off your
headlight while riding, one of the stator legs would be disabled. This would
allow less voltage to be dumped into your charging system when the headlight
was off and keep the battery from overcharging and possibly boiling out all of
that nice distilled water and possibly cooking your battery. Since my bike
doesn't even have a headlight switch (the headlight is on all the time) I can
eliminate that loop of wire, simplify the circuit, and cut out the unnecessary
resistance"

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/storagecliff/images/r-r_replacement.pdf

[Steve]

No, your headlight will still switch ON and OFF, just like it was designed to do.

The headlight switch actually has two sets of contacts. One set actually controls current to the light, the other set of contacts was used to connect the third leg of the stator to the rectifier/regulator. By connecting your stator wires directly to the r/r, you will be charging at full capacity at all times. If you turn the headlight OFF, there will be a lot more current that is shunted to ground to regulate the voltage. Recommended procedure when you bypass the switch like that is to leave the headlight OFF while starting the bike, then turn the light ON to reduce the load on the regulator.

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[AirCooledFour]

Ok

Ah, mystery solved! Many thanks to all of you!