Brought a new battery, put it on the bike, after a week it had gone flat Charged it back up, after using the bike all last week, come to go on it today and battery was completely dead! I have reason to believe, it could be the rectifier what do you think?:? (Its not very far to work, about three mile trip)
brought a new battery begining of the season(gel type),it went dead thought it was a duff one so got another old style acid filled one 2weeks ago.same thing has happened to that.doesn't seem to be charging of the bike hence the rectifier/regulator query.
had a spare rectifier in the parts bin,checked the resistance on this one compared to the other one and it gave different readings,so charged the battery back up swaped them around and i'll keep an eye on the voltage.(here's hoping)
Used it today, battery fully charged when I went out, got home , and the battery had dropped to 10 volts what shall i do now? (could be 2 dodgy rectifiers but not convinced)
i've tried 2 different batteries so kinda ruled them out,over the past couple of hours it's gone from 13v to 12v just sat there,is that normal .it's all standard wiring .
I guess it should dropt to 12V - if it doesn't hold a charge overnight and you
have tried 2 it seems like it is discharging somehow - do you have an alarm
fitted?
Whenever i have had a problem with the voltage dropping it has always been
because the battery is knackd
dave32 wrote:Stator charging coils gone duff,may need re winding,need to check the Ohms resistance as per the manual.
+1
And as JanBros said, you really need to measure the voltage when it's running.
Also, when the rec/reg fails, it normally over-charges rather than the other way round, so I somewhat doubt the issues there.
KR250 Tandem Twin (Naked)
KR1 Red/White
KR1S Track Bike (has been put on hold for now)
ZXR750 H1 (Winter project)
dave32 wrote:Stator charging coils gone duff,may need re winding,need to check the Ohms resistance as per the manual.
+1
And as JanBros said, you really need to measure the voltage when it's running.
Also, when the rec/reg fails, it normally over-charges rather than the other way round, so I somewhat doubt the issues there.
+2 When this happens it usually kills your tacho first then your CDI shortly after.