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mothra
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When I got this bike, first thing I worked on was the electrical.
-Added rear signals and replaced the front right signal with aftermarket signals, similar to original signals.
-Used some contact cleaner on all of the bullet plugs to clean them up.
-I also fabricated some new ground points,
-one from the battery to the engine and
-a few more for the lights, signal relay, and some other stuff to even out the frame ground on the system a bit more.
This fixed the turn signal issues I had with them not flashing and cleared up some weird resistance readings on most electrical components.
-Next I went though and replaced some worn connectors. I replaced a few bullet connectors with blade connectors that were utterly worn, and
-I also did the headlamp connector, and a few other rotted connectors.
-I also checked for shorts and generally cleaned up the electrical system. Nothing too major.
So I ended up cooking a battery... and ended up replacing the Regulator/Rectifier with a new one as the old one was over charging the battery at 19V. (Didn't initially test the R/R or Stator since they had worked OK for two weeks) Way to high for a battery. So I had a shop put a new regulator in, they were doing tires, sprockets and chains. Yea I don't have the tools to deal with the chain or mounting tires, so went ahead and had them put that in with that job. It looks like Ricks Motorsport Electric one, black, longer with larger fins similar wiring setup, and it was about $100. Said it was a good one and that he used them before no prob. The did a nice job, had shrink wrapping on the wires, there were no loose connections, and they checked the electrical over again and replaced some more connectors and so they did go through the electrical and it was working great (independent verification, and had some comments about these bikes and their charging system) Also mentioned that I may need a new stator soon. So I suspect that they found something suspicious about it and warned me about its death state. Said I did well wiring everything back up and let me verify that the battery was in fact now completely charging at 14V under hither revs, and that it was working correctly. Off I went, pleased.
So that lasted about a day, and the stator blew. I discovered my stator blew while riding, the battery was draining during a ride, felt the regulator and it was a cold dead fish, didn't even have to check the stator, I knew it went. I went to RMStator and picked one up there for about $100. Another Ricks I think since the name stuck. Ordered the gasket and some thread lock and installed that last weekend. Whoot, actually it was pretty easy and I had all of the gaskets I needed thanks to someone tutorial here... (ah hem, thanks) Taking out the old one, it was the original Suzuki stator (how old now?) with a blown coil (Connecting to the yellow wire on the bike). So I checked all the wiring again and found no problems.
Installed the stator and tested with the bike running and it was outputting about 19-21AC on all coil output lines... on the high end, going into the R/R. The R/R was also getting warm (whoot getting current), however when checking battery voltage.... I was getting about .5V DC to the battery difference while revving. The battery was fully charged, and used briefly to start the bike, but it did't seam to be charging. I though great, and decided to try to test ride it around for about an hour and a half, to see if the battery would discharge. It didn't, and I ran the bike for a good while with no indication of a problem, however when I got home, and tested the battery, it was not loosing a ton of current, but it wasn't charged up you know what I mean? Like the bike wasn't continually draining the battery, but again only about .5V DC difference (yes 1/2 volt) from idle to high rev RPM's... Ride was about 1.5 hours long, varying, no stopping in one big loop.
Also have lost 2 rear tail lights on the bike, but found no evidence of a short, I have wiggled jiggled and bent wires around looking for one while it was running. Since i put in the new stator I have not lost any more bulbs, but now I don't seem to be charging the battery...
What do you make of this?
Did I blow out the R/R when the stator blew?
There is no noticeable voltage drop on the battery, and I can remove the battery from the circuit and the bike will continue to run. However, the battery will never really get more than about 1/2 volt to charge it back up.
We went from cooking to working, to discharging, to not charging, but not totally draining. LOL
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When I got this bike, first thing I worked on was the electrical.
-Added rear signals and replaced the front right signal with aftermarket signals, similar to original signals.
-Used some contact cleaner on all of the bullet plugs to clean them up.
-I also fabricated some new ground points,
-one from the battery to the engine and
-a few more for the lights, signal relay, and some other stuff to even out the frame ground on the system a bit more.
This fixed the turn signal issues I had with them not flashing and cleared up some weird resistance readings on most electrical components.
-Next I went though and replaced some worn connectors. I replaced a few bullet connectors with blade connectors that were utterly worn, and
-I also did the headlamp connector, and a few other rotted connectors.
-I also checked for shorts and generally cleaned up the electrical system. Nothing too major.
So I ended up cooking a battery... and ended up replacing the Regulator/Rectifier with a new one as the old one was over charging the battery at 19V. (Didn't initially test the R/R or Stator since they had worked OK for two weeks) Way to high for a battery. So I had a shop put a new regulator in, they were doing tires, sprockets and chains. Yea I don't have the tools to deal with the chain or mounting tires, so went ahead and had them put that in with that job. It looks like Ricks Motorsport Electric one, black, longer with larger fins similar wiring setup, and it was about $100. Said it was a good one and that he used them before no prob. The did a nice job, had shrink wrapping on the wires, there were no loose connections, and they checked the electrical over again and replaced some more connectors and so they did go through the electrical and it was working great (independent verification, and had some comments about these bikes and their charging system) Also mentioned that I may need a new stator soon. So I suspect that they found something suspicious about it and warned me about its death state. Said I did well wiring everything back up and let me verify that the battery was in fact now completely charging at 14V under hither revs, and that it was working correctly. Off I went, pleased.
So that lasted about a day, and the stator blew. I discovered my stator blew while riding, the battery was draining during a ride, felt the regulator and it was a cold dead fish, didn't even have to check the stator, I knew it went. I went to RMStator and picked one up there for about $100. Another Ricks I think since the name stuck. Ordered the gasket and some thread lock and installed that last weekend. Whoot, actually it was pretty easy and I had all of the gaskets I needed thanks to someone tutorial here... (ah hem, thanks) Taking out the old one, it was the original Suzuki stator (how old now?) with a blown coil (Connecting to the yellow wire on the bike). So I checked all the wiring again and found no problems.
Installed the stator and tested with the bike running and it was outputting about 19-21AC on all coil output lines... on the high end, going into the R/R. The R/R was also getting warm (whoot getting current), however when checking battery voltage.... I was getting about .5V DC to the battery difference while revving. The battery was fully charged, and used briefly to start the bike, but it did't seam to be charging. I though great, and decided to try to test ride it around for about an hour and a half, to see if the battery would discharge. It didn't, and I ran the bike for a good while with no indication of a problem, however when I got home, and tested the battery, it was not loosing a ton of current, but it wasn't charged up you know what I mean? Like the bike wasn't continually draining the battery, but again only about .5V DC difference (yes 1/2 volt) from idle to high rev RPM's... Ride was about 1.5 hours long, varying, no stopping in one big loop.
Also have lost 2 rear tail lights on the bike, but found no evidence of a short, I have wiggled jiggled and bent wires around looking for one while it was running. Since i put in the new stator I have not lost any more bulbs, but now I don't seem to be charging the battery...
What do you make of this?
Did I blow out the R/R when the stator blew?
There is no noticeable voltage drop on the battery, and I can remove the battery from the circuit and the bike will continue to run. However, the battery will never really get more than about 1/2 volt to charge it back up.
We went from cooking to working, to discharging, to not charging, but not totally draining. LOL
Yea I would have stayed close to home but I was looking into a few other things I had worked on that needed some testing time, Everything but the electrical seemed to be going well.
