Alternator not charging. Ohms between the wires reads fine and matches the readings from my other gs550 which charges fine. Also no continuity to the stator base. Measuring the ac voltage between each two wires only gets to 6 volts at 3000rpm but on my other working bike it gets to 50 volts at 3000rpm . So I removed stator. It’s very black, I tried uploading photo but it says file size too big. I know from reading stuff on the internet it is common for them to bake and fail. But from a scientific point of view what has actually gone wrong ? If the ohms still read right. I accept that I need to buy one but I just want to understand why it doesn’t work if ohm testing seems fine. I don’t think it’s original stator as it has three grey wires. Another query, the rotor has 12 magnets in it. As far as I can see the 18 pole stator (like mine) uses a 12 magnet rotor and the 12 pole stator uses an eight magnet rotor. Is that right? (It did let me upload pic of rotor). Please let me know , thanks.
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1982 GS550 stator problem
- Thread starter Isetta
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