Agree. If you changed your brushes correctly, you're down to the rotor, regulator or associated wiring. If the rotor ohms good, ground the green wire at the brush and see if the rotor magnetizes. You can even just use a paper clip. Touch the screw that's holding the green terminal and anywhere metal and the rotor should magnetize.I wouldn't do that.
The headlight behavior implies you have power that should be charging the battery. Your generator has a higher voltage than your battery... If it's true, I'd suspect a bad battery (I know it's new) or possibly a connection to it.I rode around for a couple days with no problems, until the other day I noticed my headlight was puttering in time with the engine. Pulsing along with my RPM’s.
By the time I got home I had no electrical. The lights would only come on if I was riding around 40mph but as soon as I slowed down all the electrical would go out. Bike still would run but no lights.
Prolly not. Look at a just the battery scenario..... the coil draws about 5amps.... lights dim. TCI discharges coil.... lights brighten. TCI re-energizes coil.... light dim... yeah... a flicker.The headlight behavior implies you have power that should be charging the battery.
It's not confusing to me. I gave him a 1 min. slap test video that even a monkey could follow. He gave us back a video of him trying it... with no discernible sign of magnetism. His rotor's not magnetizing. Without the magnetism... we ain't charging.Yeah, it's confusing. I never trust anyone 100% to do a test right or describe what they're seeing right.
If there's no power from the generator, then where is the power to run the lights at high rpm (and not at low) coming from?It's not confusing to me. I gave him a 1 min. slap test video that even a monkey could follow. He gave us back a video of him trying it... with no discernible sign of magnetism. His rotor's not magnetizing. Without the magnetism... we ain't charging.
Here's a quote.... from you... emphasis mine.If there's no power from the generator, then where is the power to run the lights at high rpm (and not at low) coming from?
I didn't see how his lights behaved... so I can't really use that as a troubleshooting aid. I did however, see how the feeler gauge behaved. That's something I can see, so I'll go with that for a guide to trouble shooting.... and try not to get fixated on a description of light behavior that might or might not be accurate.I never trust anyone 100% to do a test right or describe what they're seeing right.
I'm guessin' you're not actually reading through all this. 5twins already told him to measure and what to look for a few comments back.I guess next I would have him measure the rotor ring to ring as a followup to the slap test.