wow its been a while.

OK can you explain this to me,

last fall ....no fall befor last i put a new battery in. let it set all winter, and of course had to charge it last spring.  ran fine throu the season till bout mid Aug.  by Oct. battery was shot i mean compleatly. trickle charge 2 days, test it and watch the volts drop. DEAD.
so i got a new batery all nice and fully charged put it in and the bike lit up better than ever.....(well better than ever beeing like normal)
with in 2 weeks dead again. ***both the first time it went dead and this time when i jumped it, it blew out the high beam in my head light.....? wtf   when i took the jumper cables off i may have pulled the - neautral- off first seeing as i quickly grabed both at the same time but still.

so i'm guessing/hopeing its a bad ground.right?
i dont know if it is trying to charge it's self or not so would runing it then discinecting the battery every time.....i dont even want to do that.

Guess what i am asking for is advice on where to start.
thanks.

P.S. make me an offer around a 1,000 bucks and it yours once it's running again
1990
20,190 miles
clean ohio title(just moved to charleston, SC.)

AHHH crap..   just realized i left my helmet in ohio on the my hanger in the shed. Sh#@ stupid.....that.ahh

any body got a cheap fix for that

Quote from: quinnbozz on January 29, 2007, 10:33:43 AM
AHHH crap..   just realized i left my helmet in ohio on the my hanger in the shed. Sh#@ stupid.....that.ahh

any body got a cheap fix for that

Hey Quinn bozz ... welcome back ...
BTW SC has no helmut rule ... as in, if your name is helmut you rule ... but like that's helmut rule so its like you dont rule.
Anyway want to drag it over to my place we can trouble shoot it. I believe you may have a bad case of goats ...
Cool.
Srinath.

i was afraid someone was gona say that.
I am on Charleston AFB so charlotte is a bit to far. for now but i'll think bout it.
why would the high beam blow like that? that's what makes me think,   .........ya i got no clue

by the way the new setup looks great but whered the ticker at the bottem go, the that showed how many were on the site and who they were


nevermind this i see it now didn't look low enough.

The goats problem is somewhat easy to identify in some cases. Unhook the 3 leads off the alternator and look for resistance between each of those, and check for continuity to ground. It should be open to ground and have the same resistance between them 3. Shorts to ground are almost inevitable with goats, turn over the motor a few times and check in different spots of the crank for good measure. Also oil will have lacquer and magnetic black bits in case of bad goats. Filter screen will have the magnets sticking to it also.
Cool.
Srinath.

well it will be a while cause i got no testing equip. and only a single car port to work on it in that hast to be shared with the wifes truck guess who wins that.....

Were you connected to the battery when jumping or somewhere else?

Goats?  Maybe if you got the stuff Srinath mentions.

I'm in the Upstate of SC. Farther than the Queen City where the Goat's Guru lives. 

first jump bat to bat second time i used frame still blows

once it turns over then starts geting brighter and brighter (you could almost hear it humin) then a few quick flickers and thats all she wrote.

Quote from: quinnbozz on January 31, 2007, 06:18:32 PM
first jump bat to bat second time i used frame still blows

once it turns over then starts geting brighter and brighter (you could almost hear it humin) then a few quick flickers and thats all she wrote.

Sounds to me like no rectification/regulation of the generator output.

The RR is the item near the relays on the right side of the bike. Large heatsink. It has the rectifier diodes and voltage regulator in one unit.

ok bought a battery tender, bike dont hold a charge, but when i get enough juce in it to start it will stay running on its own

so what say you to that gurus?

just a ground?
i hope.

As Starwalt said......the regulator/rectifier is toast. Its letting more than 12v into the bikes electrical system. This is what is poping the bulb. Question is what has taken out the R/R? you could well have a dodgy generator as well.