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Battery drain?

Thread starter tfb
Start date Jan 4, 2005

tfb

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Jan 30, 2005

Duaneage,

Good point about the coils not needing to be wound perfectly -- it gives us all courage to perhaps do this job ourselves next time! Unfortunately GS stators seem to be the one GS component that doesn't last forever.

In short (no pun intended), the windings have been shorting wherever possible; virtually zero resistance between the windings, and ditto for each winding with earth... so it was a wonder anything was getting through to the reg./rect. In the photo of the windings, take a look at the second winding from the right of TDC; insulation has almost gone, and several loops of winding have self-soldered together.

Thanks again all, for your input & advice. I'm looking forward to getting these electrical woes behind me and for some trouble-free summer motorcycling.