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1980 gs1100 - diode test for regulator - charging ISSUES

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The third stator wire disappears into the harness to show up again at the headlight switch (that Suzuki so thoughtfully disabled for you), then returns back to the rectifier/regulator. Hopefully you did find a third wire somewhere that connects to the third input wire of the R/R? The theory behind that was based in the days that you could turn off the headlight. Why generate the power if you are not going to use it? By removing that leg of the stator from the circuit when the lights were off, the regulator did not have to work quite as hard. Made sense then, but does not matter now that the lights are on all the time.


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yeah that makes sense, there is a third wire, red/white tha comes back into the regulator, now that i know that I might take the voltage drop over that wire, or check the resistance...that could be eating a little bit of my charging voltage too.
 
You can also bypass that wire entirely.

Take the third wire from the stator and connect it directly to the third input on the R/R.


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