Sounds very similar to what I had with the 929, from memory sure it's 70vac off all three windings from the stator at 4-5k. As the voltage dropped when I connected the battery thought it might be the battery itself dragging the voltage down. Can't say for definite mate, but if your not getting the 70vac I'd investigate that further and go from there.
Yeh, going to give the battery a charge when I get home (don't want this one getting too low!) and give it another test. Going to have a look about at what other blades are getting from the stator as it seems makes/models give out slightly different power and what is classified as enough.
If your near Basingstoke at any point Steve your welcome to test some readings on mine to see how it compares
Thanks Martin, appreciate that mate. If its ok with you I'll do some more tests by tomorrow and go from there. Hoping to track a voltage drop somewhere! And hopefully bloody soon!
u need to volt drop the feed and earth. anything over 0.5 volts, then there is your answer. a high resistance in the pos or neg side
Update: .500 (diode) when positive on regulator ground and negative on battery negative 14.5v on reg with positive on red and negative on green 11.75v at solenoid 11.75v on the solenoid (the bit behind the main fuse) with positive on red and negative on battery negative 11.75v with positive on positive battery and finding grounding point (bare metal on frame) 0.22v positive on battery negative and negative on regulator negative (green) -0.22v when other way round on the above
I'm getting around 52-54 volts under close inspection. The fault finding guides I've been going through are saying 50-70v, this is one I seem to see come up a lot, basically if its over 50v it should be ok... http://www.electrosport.com/media/pdf/fault-finding-diagram.pdf And with the rr producing around 14.5v when multimeter on the rr pos and neg, voltage-wise it checks out ok. So going from the rr connection to the battery is where I think I might need to investigate?
Daft question but are you 100% sure the battery is ok? Is it new mate? Not much between the RR and the Batt... Id suspect a faulty battery?
Funny you should say that.. Ordered a new battery (moto batt) and after starting it up and testing after a while it was getting low, so I put it on charge but it won't hold a charge, although I can see the volts going in from the charger! That's being send back tomorrow.... Whilst this is happening I've had my old battery on charge (dyno-something) and that seems to charge up fine, although took it off just before it got to 12.5 as wanted to get on with some further tests.
Someone suggested a faulty starter relay? Although i stuck the pos multimeter lead in the red cable that goes in the starter and the voltage is 11.75 there. Not sure if I'm explaining that well enough but it's the red cable that comes from the 20 fuse mate. Although to be fair the only corrosion I've seen was in the starter relay :-/
Have you had a look at your generator? Get your multimeter set to Continuity, neg on earth(battery or chassis) pos lead on the 3 outputs from your genny, they should all be ground to earth, continuity, usually meter gives a beep. My 04 did the same 2 years ago. Thought it was battery, then the reg, turned out to be a burnt out winding on the genny. Your bike will run ok on a full charge battery for a few miles, but will suck it dry as it is not getting any power from your regulator.
Hi Chris, Checked the generator, I'm getting beeping at the 3 pins. I presume that's good?! Welcome to the forum by the way
