Yamaha_chop
Fabricator Extraordinare
Just bought the regulator and bracket from you Hugh, thanks very much! looking forward to doing this swap.
Just bought the regulator and bracket from you Hugh, thanks very much! looking forward to doing this swap.
Gapper, On the stock alternator power was sent on the yellow wire to the safety relay. On the early models this power tripped the relay and turned off power to the starter relay so the starter won't work when the engine is running.
On the later models, late 78 and 79 still had the headlight on/off switch. In 80 they did away with the on/off switch and the safety relay turned the headlight on. You will need the do a few changes to bypass the safety relay.
I haven't worked with a late 78-79, but looking at a diagram, just unplugging the safety relay might let the headlight switch do the job. You might need to nypass the reserve lighting unit too.
I am no mechanic so this is probably a dumb question but.... As far as the TDC timing marks are these just for later use or does the timing need to be reset after doing the PMA swap?
OK, so I've set up my system using Hugh's adapter plate & RR, and I got a Banshee timing plate/flywheel and a Suzuki VZ800 stator (98). I haven't actually connected the R/R to the wiring harness yet. With a fully-charged battery, I turned on the bike (it's running just off the battery, the charging system is set-up but not connected) and tested the voltage coming out of the R/R. It measured at 1.4 volts. Is that normal? I checked the battery, and it measured 13.? volts, just to make sure I was on the correct setting. Shouldn't I be getting more voltage out of the R/R? I revved it up a bunch and it read a constant 1.4 volts. I'm no electrician, but my intuition would tell me it should be 14v when I'm revving it. Do I have a problem with my system?
I'm very excited to get it working. I've been riding my bike for the last two months with a dead charging system, and I've been limited to about 20 miles roundtrip so I can make sure my battery doesn't die on me. Thanks for all the tips, everyone!
OK, well with it hooked up it runs fine, though I'm still not sure if it's charging.
Now I don't have a headlight
I tried disabling the reserve headlight crappo, but still no go (I short-circuited the blue-black and the blue-yellow that go into the reserve). I've got an '83 SJ with a Boyer ignition. My wiring diagram shows a brown wire that comes out of the old R/R, along with the red, that appears to be a part of the power circuit. Should this get wired into something? I've currently just got the black-to-black and the red-red hooked up.
is there a list of flywheels that work on the 650 PMA conversion or do i need the flywheel that come with the stator from the "list" of stators someone posted?
i'm concerned about the fit in the side cover and the taper on the crankshaft. this will be a points ignition initially...
thanks yall.
I found a NOS Electrosport 3-phase stator. It appears to be the same thing Hugh sells.
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