I soldered mine and taped them up well, better than using a connector block. I was actually lucky, mine melted together a few years ago but there was no stator damage. When I started the engine I used a meter to check and a good healthy 14 volts was going into the battery and no problems since then.Phew!:gunhead: The 3 yellow wires behind the battery on the GL1200 got seperated when th:Xey went on fire, the connecters are burnt off. Any ideas on how I reconnect them?
I'va managed to catch a few of these in the nick of time as well. Don't just assume the stator is roasted when the wires melt. Quite often it's a corroded connector block that causes the meltdown and if you catch the meltdown quickly enough you have a good chance of getting away lightly. Just check it out with a meter afterwards.66udive wrote:I soldered mine and taped them up well, better than using a connector block. I was actually lucky, mine melted together a few years ago but there was no stator damage. When I started the engine I used a meter to check and a good healthy 14 volts was going into the battery and no problems since then.Phew!:gunhead: The 3 yellow wires behind the battery on the GL1200 got seperated when th:Xey went on fire, the connecters are burnt off. Any ideas on how I reconnect them?
A meter capable of reading inductance (Henrys) would also be another way to do it. An Oscilloscope would do it too, but mostof us don't have these on hand.
You can get a cheap digital voltmeter at Harbor Freight for less than $5.00 which will do nicely for both measurements.
Close, but no cigar. What you are describing is a DELTA connection, the stator is setup as a WYE. In the WYE one end of each winding is connected to a neutral or in this case a ground. In a DELTA none of the windings is grounded. The three windings generate AC voltages 120 degrees out of phase with each other and are fed to the rectifier to be converted to DC and then to the regulator to limit the output voltage to the nominal 14V.They aren't in a true parallel, but sorta. Think of a triangle and the three lines are the stator coils, and the 3 points of the triangle are your yellow wires. Each yellow wire is connected to 2 coils.
Raymond
Ì have an oscilloscope ( unused for years ) so I will check it out with that.
Regards,
Terry.
A cheap digital voltmeter read a voltage, it won't be accurately calibrated due to waveshape and frequency, but it WILL be off the same amount on all three windings which gives a valid comparative reading. The exact voltage is not all that necessary to ascertain, any significant difference between the output of the three coils is all you need from a mechaic's viewpoint.A cheap digital voltmeter cannot read stator voltage, the frequency of the stator signal is too high (and varies), and DVMs are designed to read a symmetrical sine wave, the stator voltage is not a symmetrical sine wave. Readings are not accurate.