skydailey wrote:
with negative lead on negative post on batt. and pos lead on ground at regulator it read 0.05 to 0.09 when rpm are up. The other test with the neg. lead on neg. post on batt and pos. lead on pos. lead on reg. the volt. never exceeded 14.8. However at idle when checking back and forth between pos. lead on regulator then pos. lead at batt. the regulator would read 14.5 while batt would read 15.6 or at idle?
The regulator is good, but just a hair high at 14.8v.
The problem is that you are losing voltage between the battery and the regulator. This loss of voltage makes the regulator think the voltage is too low at the battery.
The bike actually uses less ignition power at higher RPMs, so there is less voltage loss on the bad connections at higher RPMs, so the problem may not be there at higher RPMs.
To correct the problem, you need to trace the voltage from battery positive to the fuses, then to the ignition key switch, then to the regulator. Somewhere there is a drop in voltage throgh a connector etc. There may be several bad spots. Start with the fuses and ignition switch. Voltage going in should be about the same as voltage coming out. If not, then something needs to be cleaned or replaced. All readings should use the battery negative as the reference point for the meter's black lead. The tests need to happen while the bike is idling because that is when the problem is evident.
skydailey wrote:
One more thing.. My battery with the bike off is sitting at 12.59 volts. Is this too high, could my battery be causing this?
No. It should be between 12.5 and 13v when sitting.
Post edited by: loudhvx, at: 2007/07/15 15:10