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85 GS550L, battery's good, rectifier is good, won't electric start.

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I've got a new battery in the bike, a new static rectifier, and I've had the alternator checked and it won't start with the button. I can push start it no problem, I can't figure it out. If I hook it up to a charger it fires.
 
Nickerbocker said:
I've got a new battery in the bike, a new static rectifier, and I've had the alternator checked and it won't start with the button. I can push start it no problem, I can't figure it out. If I hook it up to a charger it fires.
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So if a charger is hooked up to it the start button works? Check all your safety switches on your kick stand, clutch..etc...if equipped...make sure if those are not hooked up the yellow with green stripe wires in headlight are hooked up...had same problem before.
 
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Hi Mr. Knickerbocker,

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I don't know what I did..but now it's firing up. But the headlights aren't coming on, and the brights don't register with the display. I actually was just going through cleaning out the dials and re-taping the case together.(my dials case is cracked) no idea what I did.
 
It probably bulbs that blew due to too high a volatage.
You get odd spikes when the regulator rectifier goes bad.

Just take all the bulbs and test them in one ot the known good sockets,
 
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