Took the ole girl out for a spin this morning. She was performing well when all of a sudden she died on me coming out of a turn. Fortunately there was a park on my left so I was able to coast into the park. Thanks to my Dad who had the time (he's retired, haha) to come and pick us up.Back at the house I stick the volt meter to the battery and 11.75 v showing. Hmmm, battery isn't being charged. ( no I don't have an on board volt meter) but you can bet your bottom I'll have one very soon.
Once the battery is charged I'll start the process of checking all connections but firstly I'll start her up and check as to whether or not the new rectifier/regulator is sending power to the battery for charging. If not, I'll move on to the alternator. Of course the R/R showed sending 15.7 or so volts to the battery.
Hopefully it's a loose connection.
now I've checked the voltage coming off the R/R it reads 11.03 volts where as it was just over 15v when I installed it. Now I'll check the blade connections to the R/R and I'll retest each of the 3 wires coming from the alternator. There is no plug connector between the alternator and the R/R because I removed it and soldiered those wires together.
I'm expecting loose blade connectors or a faulty alternator which by the way tested good before hand.
Wouldn't that just beat all if I ended up needing to replace the alternator.
well after testing the alternator wires I found what appears to be an intermittent problem or the old alternator was hanging on by a thread and has finally quit.
the 1st wire tested showed 0 volts, 2nd 21.5 volts, 3rd 0 volts, but to make things interesting I retested them again(all this at 4000rpm) and found all 3 wires showed 0.5volts.
Just for info the exciter wires(blk and white) coming off the battery showed 10.9 volts.
What am I forgetting here, anything?
Does it sound like an alternator that needs to be replaced?
Terry
Once the battery is charged I'll start the process of checking all connections but firstly I'll start her up and check as to whether or not the new rectifier/regulator is sending power to the battery for charging. If not, I'll move on to the alternator. Of course the R/R showed sending 15.7 or so volts to the battery.
Hopefully it's a loose connection.
now I've checked the voltage coming off the R/R it reads 11.03 volts where as it was just over 15v when I installed it. Now I'll check the blade connections to the R/R and I'll retest each of the 3 wires coming from the alternator. There is no plug connector between the alternator and the R/R because I removed it and soldiered those wires together.
I'm expecting loose blade connectors or a faulty alternator which by the way tested good before hand.
Wouldn't that just beat all if I ended up needing to replace the alternator.
well after testing the alternator wires I found what appears to be an intermittent problem or the old alternator was hanging on by a thread and has finally quit.
the 1st wire tested showed 0 volts, 2nd 21.5 volts, 3rd 0 volts, but to make things interesting I retested them again(all this at 4000rpm) and found all 3 wires showed 0.5volts.
Just for info the exciter wires(blk and white) coming off the battery showed 10.9 volts.
What am I forgetting here, anything?
Does it sound like an alternator that needs to be replaced?
Terry
