A5HLEY
XS650 Enthusiast
I recently installed Hugh's PMA kit on my 79' Special II and my bike is not charging. I've chopped and hardtailed the bike and am running a brand new 12 Volt 3.4AH 12v 3.4 Amp-hr battery, kick only.
I am only running led signal/ brake lights and 2.5"mini speedo. I attached the wiring diagram that I used.
I fully charged the battery and then checked my bike with a multimeter yesterday. I'm getting about 12.5v from the battery when the bike is off. When the bike is kicked over, the volts drop way down and the signal lights flicker and the bike sputters.
I unplugged the pma and reg/rec and low and behold the bike runs strong. If at any point you turn on the headlight, the bike starts to sputter again or die.
I gather that my bike is simply not charging. To clarify, I have two wires coming directly through a fuse from the battery, one to the reg/rec combo and the other to the switched key.
Here's where I may be wrong.... I have a ground coming directly from the negative battery terminal and connected to the PMA kit rec/rec combo ground wire and together grounded through a ring terminal to a lower engine mount.
Should these grounds be separated?
Does anyone have any other suggested diagnostic tests that I should do?
I contacted Hugh directly but the poor guy has been under water lately (literally). I hated to ask him the question when he has so much else going on in his life right now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am only running led signal/ brake lights and 2.5"mini speedo. I attached the wiring diagram that I used.
I fully charged the battery and then checked my bike with a multimeter yesterday. I'm getting about 12.5v from the battery when the bike is off. When the bike is kicked over, the volts drop way down and the signal lights flicker and the bike sputters.
I unplugged the pma and reg/rec and low and behold the bike runs strong. If at any point you turn on the headlight, the bike starts to sputter again or die.
I gather that my bike is simply not charging. To clarify, I have two wires coming directly through a fuse from the battery, one to the reg/rec combo and the other to the switched key.
Here's where I may be wrong.... I have a ground coming directly from the negative battery terminal and connected to the PMA kit rec/rec combo ground wire and together grounded through a ring terminal to a lower engine mount.
Should these grounds be separated?
Does anyone have any other suggested diagnostic tests that I should do?
I contacted Hugh directly but the poor guy has been under water lately (literally). I hated to ask him the question when he has so much else going on in his life right now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!