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[Pat]

He group,
I am the owner of a right shift, 500cc bullet (1995 model).
Currently the bike has charging problems, the battery is not charging, it might be the rectifier or the alternator. I have the following questions:
1. In my manual the are three 12-v wiring diagrams, Regular version, UK version and US/Canada version. Which one shall I use?
2. Is there an easy way to test which one is faulty?
3. Any vault-meter will do the job ?
regards
Pat

[Norm]

Hi Pat, nothing unusual with bad charging on these. Firstly you need to unplug the wires coming from the alternator, connector is usually somewhere around the top of the gearbox. Should be a 3 wire alternator with 2 wires out of the connector. Set the volt meter to A/C, run the motor up to about 2,000rpm and you should get hopefully about 30 volts A/C across the 2 wires. This is what is recommended but I have seen them put out 17 volts A/C and still give 14 volts D/C at the battery. If you don't have charge coming from the Alt you then have to decide if it is the rotor or the stator. I have had a couple of new rotors recently that didn't work, straight in the bin. If you have output from the alt replace the rec/reg but once again don't expect miracles from Indian parts, I have plugged in new Indian rec/regs only to see a puff of smoke as soon as I turned the ignition on, and we all know that once the smoke escapes it is a bin job