hey guys, I was told by a member on another forum to drop a line here and maybe you could give me a hand. I'm having a difficult time getting my battery to charge which is causing misfiring and my bike to eventually just die. I'll just copy and paste my post from there, I think that would be easiest.
"I'm just beating my head against a wall with this swap. I got everything running, but it's killing batteries. I started with a cap, but it would putter out at idle. I figured it was because I was running two headlights, but even after running no lights for 10 minutes it would die. then I went to a scooter battery, same deal. now my 5 bs is doing the same thing. I haven't ever really been able go very far on it, sans the time I took it on the highway, but after I got off it started doing the same thing.
I thought it was a symptom of a bad stator, so I ran a couple checks. no ground on all three poles. .4 ish ohms between poles with engine off, and 60 volts AC at every pole with engine running.
I'm using one of hugh's rectifiers. i need to borrow a digital gauge tomorrow to check charging (I was using an analog) , but the needle sat at about 12.6 on a worn battery and increased with rpm. I'm assuming it's ok, I'll get back to you tomorrow.
with the bike off, no drain on the battery. with it on, I get about 2 volts drain, coming from the coil. I'm using a pamco ignition and the highest output coil mike sells. Is this normal?
That all said should I be able to run my cap (25,000Uh) with two lights? Is this just another problem and I am running a battery for no reason?
Any other suggestions would be appreciated, I'm kind of out of ideas at the moment."
"im running one of hugh's reg/rect - brand new. very simple wiring - 3 yellow in, green out to ground and red split to battery and coil (along with the pamco red wire) coil is a vt600 I believe - I installed it awhile ago so it's not really fresh in my head. it was on the list here. those tests I did should prove it's working, at least in my experience. It's not grounding out and I am getting the same amount of AC on all three poles. old banshee flywheel is from a shop - but that's just a magnet and should work fine. it's keyed and locked on correctly. the mounting plate is also hugh's.
ran over the wiring, no shorts. i have a 5lbs hooked up now - it was the old battery i tried to eliminate. I have tried that, a cap and a scooter battery all with the same results."
also I forgot to mention that the battery without lights sits at like 12.6 (figure the batter was 50%-70% charged) and climbs with rpms. however as soon as the lights come on it drops to about 7.5 volts.
thanks ahead of time for any help - hopefully i can be on the road by weeks end.
"I'm just beating my head against a wall with this swap. I got everything running, but it's killing batteries. I started with a cap, but it would putter out at idle. I figured it was because I was running two headlights, but even after running no lights for 10 minutes it would die. then I went to a scooter battery, same deal. now my 5 bs is doing the same thing. I haven't ever really been able go very far on it, sans the time I took it on the highway, but after I got off it started doing the same thing.
I thought it was a symptom of a bad stator, so I ran a couple checks. no ground on all three poles. .4 ish ohms between poles with engine off, and 60 volts AC at every pole with engine running.
I'm using one of hugh's rectifiers. i need to borrow a digital gauge tomorrow to check charging (I was using an analog) , but the needle sat at about 12.6 on a worn battery and increased with rpm. I'm assuming it's ok, I'll get back to you tomorrow.
with the bike off, no drain on the battery. with it on, I get about 2 volts drain, coming from the coil. I'm using a pamco ignition and the highest output coil mike sells. Is this normal?
That all said should I be able to run my cap (25,000Uh) with two lights? Is this just another problem and I am running a battery for no reason?
Any other suggestions would be appreciated, I'm kind of out of ideas at the moment."
"im running one of hugh's reg/rect - brand new. very simple wiring - 3 yellow in, green out to ground and red split to battery and coil (along with the pamco red wire) coil is a vt600 I believe - I installed it awhile ago so it's not really fresh in my head. it was on the list here. those tests I did should prove it's working, at least in my experience. It's not grounding out and I am getting the same amount of AC on all three poles. old banshee flywheel is from a shop - but that's just a magnet and should work fine. it's keyed and locked on correctly. the mounting plate is also hugh's.
ran over the wiring, no shorts. i have a 5lbs hooked up now - it was the old battery i tried to eliminate. I have tried that, a cap and a scooter battery all with the same results."
also I forgot to mention that the battery without lights sits at like 12.6 (figure the batter was 50%-70% charged) and climbs with rpms. however as soon as the lights come on it drops to about 7.5 volts.
thanks ahead of time for any help - hopefully i can be on the road by weeks end.
