r/r gone again why?

[earlfor]

Hate to hijack a thread but a quick question on the same line....cleaned everything yesterday, all connections and reinstalled. At 5000 RPM on a fully charged battery, I'm pushing 15.96 volts at the battery posts. High...but too high?

Almost 16 volts is going to cook the battery in no time at all. The maximum sustained charging voltage should not exceed 14.8 on a fully charged battery and preferably something around 14.5v.

Earl

[tas850g]

i just bought a 1982 cb450 r/r to try on my '79 850. I've had only 11.50 vdc output and maybe near 12 vdc at 4k rpms. I hope this r/r isn't too old.

I thought there was a list of r/r's around here that would work on the gs' but i haven't really found it yet.

[rustybronco]

Whaa-Laa... http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...784#post921784

what's the sh# number on the one you obtained?

[burp reynolds]

9 times out of 9.5 times the r/r fails becasue the wiring loom needs looking at get yourself a multimeter and a schematic and a 12 pack good luck make sure you check everything there can be bad grounds or shorts it's not the r/r or the stator that creates the poor reputation that these GS bikes have regarding electrical its becasue of the crazy LSD pothead that they must have hired as thier electrical engineer

BTW, what if one wanted to rewire his GS from scratch? Has a sober person come up with a more sensible schematic? Has anybody discovered any ways to simplify their wiring? Has anybody found any cheap bolt-on parts from modern bikes that provide better current?

[Billy Ricks]

BTW, what if one wanted to rewire his GS from scratch? Has a sober person come up with a more sensible schematic? Has anybody discovered any ways to simplify their wiring? Has anybody found any cheap bolt-on parts from modern bikes that provide better current?

If you sat down with a schematic it would be a fairly easy task to eliminate some of the wiring and make a few things more direct. There are things on my bike I've disabled like the gear indicator, fuel gauge, and a few other things that I could eliminate the wiring for and end up with a more compact harness. I could use a little thicker gauge wire in the process and eliminate every bullet connector on the bike in favor of plugs or spade connectors.