Hi all have an old early 70s shovel stripped flh , after mkt cases , later mod gearbox ,so very hard to determine exact age of this ride its bitsa shitza shovel . Anyway all good goes hard and is pretty reliable except for this dam voltage regulator.As of about 3years ago i have started going through regulators and batterys like nothing . first one failed boiled the battery ,fixed that replaced with a acel and a super start battery ,all good for about 6 to eight months then battery started to go flat gradually over a week or so .After checking ,load testing battery all ok then checking charging system all ok charging at about 14 + volts , checking all wiring under seat and everywhere else no faults found as far as i can see . Finally comes down to the voltage reg again and i have now determined that the reg is leaking power to earth via the body of reg . Heres how i made this determination correct or not i am unsure . First i disconected the - neg battery cable and put a test light between the - pole of the battery and earth and the test light lights up . then when i unmount the reg from the frame the light goes out . this is the same with the reg; disconected and connected to the stator ... . so far i am on my 3 reg in as many years these last 2 regs have been japanese solid state ones . This bike is also running a electronic ignition , and i am not sure of the stator amp output , weather any of this has any bearing on my problem not sure . Anyway this is getting beyond a joke and frustrating the hell out of me any help or imput would help me greatly and get this old girl back on the road again and learn me something extra . all good cheers n beers styxnshovel
All good cheers for the info and tips will get onto that and the site from the link .Fingers crossed . Also where do i find the intro you mentioned about, dont want to cut corners just very computer illitterate . cheers
