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Hey Paul...want your opinion on summin. Let's say that on an 1100 insterstate, a person has installed a brand new after market stator with "higher output than stock", they have two 35 watt driving lights, they have converted the rear turn signals so that they have 1157 bulbs front and rear to have running lights, they've installed an automotive stereo in a cyclesound, they've replaced both brake/tail light 1157's with LED bulbs. They have a couple of small bulbs on light stick on the rear.
Ok at normal drving speeds their voltmeter reads just under to just above 16 volts. With the two 35 watt driving lamps switched on it reads at a rock steady 14 volts. With the cooling fan on it drops to just over 12.
Now with it reading out at over 16 obviously the regulator is starting to fail. Now lets say they add a trailer and with the trailer lighting attached it runs at about 14.5 volts without the 35 watt driving lights or the fan.
What I'm wondering is what you think of continuing to use the failing regulator in order to have the available power to run all the extras but keepin enough things on to use up the excess power keeping it around 14 volts? Now obviously this regulator is eventually going to fail all together leaving the rider in a pickle...but is it likely to damage anything in the mean time.
For the record yes I'm talking about my Wing and yes I've already replaced the regulator with another used one. My voltage readings are still a tad high but I have not confirmed the readings with a multimeter either before or after the swap.
Hey Paul...want your opinion on summin. Let's say that on an 1100 insterstate, a person has installed a brand new after market stator with "higher output than stock", they have two 35 watt driving lights, they have converted the rear turn signals so that they have 1157 bulbs front and rear to have running lights, they've installed an automotive stereo in a cyclesound, they've replaced both brake/tail light 1157's with LED bulbs. They have a couple of small bulbs on light stick on the rear.
Ok at normal drving speeds their voltmeter reads just under to just above 16 volts. With the two 35 watt driving lamps switched on it reads at a rock steady 14 volts. With the cooling fan on it drops to just over 12.
Now with it reading out at over 16 obviously the regulator is starting to fail. Now lets say they add a trailer and with the trailer lighting attached it runs at about 14.5 volts without the 35 watt driving lights or the fan.
What I'm wondering is what you think of continuing to use the failing regulator in order to have the available power to run all the extras but keepin enough things on to use up the excess power keeping it around 14 volts? Now obviously this regulator is eventually going to fail all together leaving the rider in a pickle...but is it likely to damage anything in the mean time.
For the record yes I'm talking about my Wing and yes I've already replaced the regulator with another used one. My voltage readings are still a tad high but I have not confirmed the readings with a multimeter either before or after the swap.
