Phill
XS650 Enthusiast
Over charging problem
Hi all. Hope everyone (in the USA) had a good Thanksgiving.
I've been finishing up my bike and while doing the wiring I found a problem. My apologies for this being long.
I have an 81 XS650SH verified by the numbers on the engine. It was running just fine before I made my changes. I added a box to store all the electronics and wires under the seat. While doing this I added some 6pin wire connectors to make it easy to pull everything out of the box for troubleshooting.
Following the simplified wiring diagrams on the site and also the manual for my bike I connect the brown wire from the Rec/Reg to the "fuse block" (coil, ignitor, ...). This is also connected to the ON side of the power switch (to power the alt/stator).
The problem is that I get too much voltage and it blows out lights and stuff. I revved up the engine and I get 20-30v coming out. If I take the brown wire out of the fuse box loop then everything works fine, but I don't know if it's charging. From what I read, it's used for charging the battery.
From under the engine I have the three whites, a brown, and a green. The yellow seems to be capped off somewhere under the black tape. I am kick only. In the manual the green goes to the pickup/brush (the little square thing) and then it should go to ground (black). In the simplified diagrams it shows a brown coming back to the rec/reg. This is strange that it's different.
I've been doing a bunch of research and searching the site for answers but I haven't found anything yet. Been working on this for a week now. It's also strange that I blew out my headlight even though I have an inline fuse before the headlight.
Hi all. Hope everyone (in the USA) had a good Thanksgiving.
I've been finishing up my bike and while doing the wiring I found a problem. My apologies for this being long.
I have an 81 XS650SH verified by the numbers on the engine. It was running just fine before I made my changes. I added a box to store all the electronics and wires under the seat. While doing this I added some 6pin wire connectors to make it easy to pull everything out of the box for troubleshooting.
Following the simplified wiring diagrams on the site and also the manual for my bike I connect the brown wire from the Rec/Reg to the "fuse block" (coil, ignitor, ...). This is also connected to the ON side of the power switch (to power the alt/stator).
The problem is that I get too much voltage and it blows out lights and stuff. I revved up the engine and I get 20-30v coming out. If I take the brown wire out of the fuse box loop then everything works fine, but I don't know if it's charging. From what I read, it's used for charging the battery.
From under the engine I have the three whites, a brown, and a green. The yellow seems to be capped off somewhere under the black tape. I am kick only. In the manual the green goes to the pickup/brush (the little square thing) and then it should go to ground (black). In the simplified diagrams it shows a brown coming back to the rec/reg. This is strange that it's different.
I've been doing a bunch of research and searching the site for answers but I haven't found anything yet. Been working on this for a week now. It's also strange that I blew out my headlight even though I have an inline fuse before the headlight.
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