Regulator Question?????

[Bustedknuckles]

Alrighty, so ive got a 78 gs850 that i have spent a year restoring. it runs great now but the last puzzle piece is hooking up the regulator so that my battery stops dying.

simple right?

the problem is that the regulator i have is off of a 83 gs850 and all the wires are different colors and the plastic connectors don't match. there are only 3 wires coming from the bike. they are>> solid yellow, white W/ green stripe, and white W/ blue stripe. that's it.

and there are 6 wires coming from the regulator. they are solid red, 3 plain white (the one red and 3 white were part of a plastic connector). and a solid green and solid brown.

i have a manual for the bike that i have used extensively. but it does'nt label wire function, only color, if it did i would have no problem hooking everything up. my issue is that i have a bunch of wires that i know can go together but are different colors and have no labeling as to what they do.

i really want to use this regulator because buying a new one is around $100!

if anyone happens to know what wires do what, and how to wire them up it would be greatly appreciated and extremely useful.

Thanks alot! ~Nate

[SqDancerLynn1]

It sounds like you have a Honda regulator.
3 white to stator color doesn't matter
red to battery
Green & brown one is ground and one is a sense wire.. search Honda Reg Modification

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=165478&highlight=Honda+Reg+modification

[BassCliff]

Hi,

There's no need to cross-post. It only causes confusion. You'll find lots of electrical help in your other thread. Your bike may have been manufactured in the last quarter of '78, but what you have is a '79 model.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff