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My battery went dead on me yesterday. I put the charger on it for the night and came in here and hit the "search button" I remembered reading earlier about a stator test so found that thread, copy and pasted it into text and printed it out so i had it in my shop.
When I took apart the wire connection with the 3 yellow wires, 1 "port" was fried.
I ran a continuity test on the 3 wires after cutting off the bad spots. I got a reading that there was continuity between the 3 wires and the engine. I don't think this is the way it was supposed to read. There was not much continuity there. I hadn't started the engine up so everything was cold. I don't know if that would make a difference or not. I fired up the bike and got my buddy to bring the revs up to 4000 to do a voltage test. I got readings of between 50-60 volts between 2 sets of wires but only 25 with the 3rd wire. I have concerns that possibly I may have not had a good connection with that low reading. (second guessing) Is this something that I should be worried about? Soldered the wires back together and will take the bike out for a test run tomorrow after workie.
Sorry for being so long winded but just wanted to make sure that I followed the steps right and if not what should I do. Thank you all for your helpful advice (Also did a load test on battery first to check it. Was OK)
My battery went dead on me yesterday. I put the charger on it for the night and came in here and hit the "search button" I remembered reading earlier about a stator test so found that thread, copy and pasted it into text and printed it out so i had it in my shop.
When I took apart the wire connection with the 3 yellow wires, 1 "port" was fried.
I ran a continuity test on the 3 wires after cutting off the bad spots. I got a reading that there was continuity between the 3 wires and the engine. I don't think this is the way it was supposed to read. There was not much continuity there. I hadn't started the engine up so everything was cold. I don't know if that would make a difference or not. I fired up the bike and got my buddy to bring the revs up to 4000 to do a voltage test. I got readings of between 50-60 volts between 2 sets of wires but only 25 with the 3rd wire. I have concerns that possibly I may have not had a good connection with that low reading. (second guessing) Is this something that I should be worried about? Soldered the wires back together and will take the bike out for a test run tomorrow after workie.
Sorry for being so long winded but just wanted to make sure that I followed the steps right and if not what should I do. Thank you all for your helpful advice (Also did a load test on battery first to check it. Was OK)