Charging on my new (old) GL1100

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Have you cut the 3 yellow wires at the connector in front of the battery and soldered them? PLUS, I have found a cheap batery that is NOT a 20 amp hour will not show a lower charge.. Are you running a lot of running lights? Put switches in it to tutn them off in the daytime. If you are going city mostly, 13 is about all you may get and loose its battery power. I run in 4th gear in the city. Make sure your terminals and ground are kept clean. 13 Amps should charge a battery unless its lit up. Stator may be dying, or Voltage regulator.
Try checking your battery, and make sute it's filled with distilled wayer. If it's nearly dry, you might be able to shock it. (Ask Mike Kramer about this). It saved one of my batteries. I thought I had a bad stator, but I went to Autozone, and got me a 2 piece Voltmeter. It can plug directly onto your battery, or in your cig. lighter. Careful though. It will show a 1 volt drop a lot of times on the cig. lighter because of rust. They cost about $12.00. A good investment though. As the bike is running, hook it directly onto the battery, Negative side 1st, then Hot. See what you output is at 1800rpms,, 2000, 2500. By 2500, it should be around 14.4 or climbing with the correct battery. If you have to replace the stator, put on a Poor Boy alternator. You will never have any charging problems again. Ask wadawing what kind of alternator he has on his. Its a good set up. (I believe that us what he has on his) Mike Kramer put one on his. You can light your Wing up like a christmas tree in the daylight.
Good Luck,
Nightrider1
P.S.
On my 83 1100 Aspencade, I must have a good charge to do city driving, or I will run my battery down with just listening to my Clarion Radio. On the interstate, I do not have this problem. I have to run in 3rd gear on the Aspencade in city driving.

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It is one half a dozen or another answers to this problem.....I have to do mine the hard way because of a screw up by someone else....Due to the fact that my stator bolt stripped out of the stator and causing loads of damage to rear case.....I can't just go putting a "poor boy" conversation on mine without pulling my engine, replace the rear case, stator gears etc....Mine was putting out good voltage, ( 14.8 at 2000 rpm) so I know my stator is good....But if my stator ever goes out and I still have this Wing....... I won't pull the engine again !!!!! I will opt for a poor boy conversion....Yeah it does call for pulling the timing belt covers, installing a new pulley, cutting a hole in timing cover and fitting the new brackets to your frame...But hey...That beats pulling and engine any day......

Claude.....

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Hi All,

So went back and measured the voltage across all legs of the stator and I get ~45V but on last one around 5V. So this combined with my nice connection to ground on all of them pretty much confirms the bad stator I guess? I'm not afraid to pull the engine but I'd hate to put it all back together to find out it's something else! If I had time, the poorboy conversion looks attractive because I would like to dress it up a bit but for now I'd like to get in a nice long ride before Summer is over.

So any advice on dropping the engine and finding a good stator? I saw I guy on ebay that rebuilds them and he looks good, any experience with that?

Cheers,

CT