choosing a Honda r/r

[Nerobro]

The one I burnt up I paid $17 for.. I think. I have another one coming. :-)

[Anonymous]

Burnt up?

[Nerobro]

The one from the KZ440 I fried yesterday/the day before. it went from working (passing all the tests in the stator papers) to having two diodes fail the test. Not a pretty situation. Evidently I picked up the wrong model rectifier. I have an actuall cx500 one coming.

[Anonymous]

That sucks, buddy.

So now we know, the SH222 doesn't work.

[Sandy]

The one from the KZ440 I fried yesterday/the day before. it went from working (passing all the tests in the stator papers) to having two diodes fail the test. Not a pretty situation. Evidently I picked up the wrong model rectifier. I have an actuall cx500 one coming.

The KZ440's are a single phase stator and the R/R should have had only two yellow wires on it. If that was the stock R/R it will not work. If it had three yellow wires there is a good chance somebody has already messed with the charging system in the past.

[Nerobro]

they "said" it was from a KZ440. :-) i'm not sure I trust them. It is a 5 wire reg. (just like the one I removed) And before I installed it, it passed the tests in the stator papers. Right now, it fails on two circuts. However, at least my stator is still good :-) ~80 volts at 5krpm.

[Anonymous]

Ihave been using SH532 12 ( Honda CB 450 from eighties ) for the last 3 years, and it is not failing. I have another one waiting on the shelf in case current one fails. For $30 Cdn I can afford to change them from time to time. I have some gadget from Smartcircuit monitoring charging my battery too. Very usefull device.
SH532 12 are six wires units but work in my GS1150 without problems.

Adam M.

[Nerobro]

Where do you hook up the brown (sixth) wire. IIRC, I'm supposde to hook it up to a switched 12volt source.

[Sandy]

Where do you hook up the brown (sixth) wire. IIRC, I'm supposde to hook it up to a switched 12volt source.

If it is a smaller gauge wire, that's where.

[Nerobro]

I already found the info, but thank you. The black wire goes to the 12v sence line. Green goes to ground. red goes.. well duh ;-) and the three yellows goto the stator.

If you haven't guessed ;-) it worked.