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This is the first year riding this bike, and it's been great except for not seeming to charge the battery enough, when I reved the engine the lights got brighter, but not bright enough. If I were to hit the brakes when a blinker was on, the blinker would stop blinking unless I reved the engine.
It seemed to be getting worse, the lights stopped getting brighter when I reved it, and reving the engine no longer kept the blinkers blinking when the brakes were applied.]
So, I got out a multi-meter and did a voltage test across the battery terminals and sure enough it wasn't charging. The voltmeter just stayed at 12 volts no matter the RPM.
I tested the regulator/rectifier unit according to the clymer manual, but was confused because the test is unclear about one of the wires to test. They list the red wire from the rectifier as "B1" and the brown wire from the regulator as "b2". The last set of wires to test on their chart says " B to G1" They don't specify which "B" they want you to check to the "G1" (Ground on the rectifier).
So until I can find out which wire they mean by "B", I can't tell if my regulator is good or not. Does anybody know which one they mean?
Anyway, I decided to proceed looking over the wiring on the bike, in case it could be something else.
So, I take off the fuse panel mount, to look at the wiring behind there, and Wholy Sh@t.... the three white wires that come from the stator and run under the engine up behind the fuse panel are all melted and burned!
Two of the wires were only touching by a couple of strands, and one was still attached, but all were melted and/or heat discolored.
Someone had twisted together and heat shrinked the three wires to a three way plug connector, and it was even melted so bad I can't pull it apart.
So I soldered some new individual connectors in the place of the three way one, started it up, and wow, charging like normal.
But...... I kept a close eye on the new connections, and sure enough when I grabbed them after running for a couple of minutes, they were getting very hot. Too hot.
When one of them started smoking, I shut it down and let it cool.
Does anyone happen to know why these three white wires would be getting sooo hot? I was thinking that the regulator is indeed bad and it doesn't stop charging.
Hellpp!!!
It seemed to be getting worse, the lights stopped getting brighter when I reved it, and reving the engine no longer kept the blinkers blinking when the brakes were applied.]
So, I got out a multi-meter and did a voltage test across the battery terminals and sure enough it wasn't charging. The voltmeter just stayed at 12 volts no matter the RPM.
I tested the regulator/rectifier unit according to the clymer manual, but was confused because the test is unclear about one of the wires to test. They list the red wire from the rectifier as "B1" and the brown wire from the regulator as "b2". The last set of wires to test on their chart says " B to G1" They don't specify which "B" they want you to check to the "G1" (Ground on the rectifier).
So until I can find out which wire they mean by "B", I can't tell if my regulator is good or not. Does anybody know which one they mean?
Anyway, I decided to proceed looking over the wiring on the bike, in case it could be something else.
So, I take off the fuse panel mount, to look at the wiring behind there, and Wholy Sh@t.... the three white wires that come from the stator and run under the engine up behind the fuse panel are all melted and burned!
Two of the wires were only touching by a couple of strands, and one was still attached, but all were melted and/or heat discolored.
Someone had twisted together and heat shrinked the three wires to a three way plug connector, and it was even melted so bad I can't pull it apart.
So I soldered some new individual connectors in the place of the three way one, started it up, and wow, charging like normal.
But...... I kept a close eye on the new connections, and sure enough when I grabbed them after running for a couple of minutes, they were getting very hot. Too hot.
When one of them started smoking, I shut it down and let it cool.
Does anyone happen to know why these three white wires would be getting sooo hot? I was thinking that the regulator is indeed bad and it doesn't stop charging.
Hellpp!!!
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