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still suffering charging issues/complications

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paulie said:
okay I'll check! 2 questions though, when you say bypass the harness, what about the 4th plug on the rectifier? just plug the three stator wires into any three random rectifier plugs? (inside of the white plastic housing) and also, ground out the rectifier how? I'm still new to this, please keep the flogging down to a minimum :( lol.
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What you have is a regulator & rectifier combined. Typically denoted as a R/R.

There should be 5 electrical connections: 3 stator inputs (in no particular order), a power output, and a ground. If you have only 4, then either the ground is though the R/R body, or you have a two phase R/R (unlikely).

As for how to ground the unit, bolt it to the frame. Or use a jumper wire from the body of the unit to the frame (or battery neg. terminal).

Hope this helps.
 
Nessism said:
What you have is a regulator & rectifier combined. Typically denoted as a R/R.

There should be 5 electrical connections: 3 stator inputs (in no particular order), a power output, and a ground. If you have only 4, then either the ground is though the R/R body, or you have a two phase R/R (unlikely).

As for how to ground the unit, bolt it to the frame. Or use a jumper wire from the body of the unit to the frame (or battery neg. terminal).

Hope this helps.
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Ed there are a lot of harpy single phase r/r out there.
 
i fixed her! now i just need to some how find a clutch cover gasket and possibly a petcock :)
 
haha of course! and i looked at the wires leading from the rectifier to the white plastic housing and it was yellow yellow yellow RED. Put the stator wires connected to the harness to yellow yellow yellow and the remaining power wire which i traced back to the red wire on the rectifier's red wire. It was just a matter of me figuring out the whole "stator is yellow", "red is power". :) have any ideas where i could find those parts by the way? I can't wait to bring her to work and wash her up and make her pretty. I will post pics too!
 
paulie said:
haha of course! and i looked at the wires leading from the rectifier to the white plastic housing and it was yellow yellow yellow RED. Put the stator wires connected to the harness to yellow yellow yellow and the remaining power wire which i traced back to the red wire on the rectifier's red wire. It was just a matter of me figuring out the whole "stator is yellow", "red is power". :) have any ideas where i could find those parts by the way? I can't wait to bring her to work and wash her up and make her pretty. I will post pics too!
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If there is no black wire, then the case of the R/R has to be ground and make sure it is connected to the battery and frame.
 
to everyone that contributed: thank you so much for your help, you guys made this a lot easier and helped make my day, and probably my summer.
 
There was a black wire that leaded back to the fuse box. Connected that too from the start :) but i checked with my multimeter, getting 13-14 Volts while operating.
 
paulie said:
There was a black wire that leaded back to the fuse box. Connected that too from the start :) but i checked with my multimeter, getting 13-14 Volts while operating.
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I understand you are overjoyed to have it running, but you need to do some basic checks. Look in my signature under Quick Test and perform those tests and report the numbers. You also do the measurements at the battery and not the R/R.
 
I did do the measurements at the battery terminals. I will run through the tests tomorrow and report the results after work, I actually have glanced at them and used them as a guide when I started having problems :)
 
paulie said:
I did do the measurements at the battery terminals. I will run through the tests tomorrow and report the results after work, I actually have glanced at them and used them as a guide when I started having problems :)
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There are subtle things to look for in the comparison of how the voltages vary and compare as you step through the test. The is still further diagnostic info I can usually glean from the data provided. The standard diagnostics are only for the most prevalent problems.
 
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