- Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:10 am
#81049
Hi Adrian, not fitted a Lucas one yet its in my shopping basket waiting for pay day so far dosent seem to of fried any off the reg/recs, original one fitted was a combined sigle unit swiss one, replaced that with new one the same, no change still overcharging, second one was 2nd hand combined one same issue, third one was new swiss seperate reg and rec boxes wired in series like they used to be on pre '99 bullets and this did drop the volts to high 14's low 15's from the high 15's I'd been seeing on the multimetre, all off them have run stone cold in use which i belive from jap bike experiece isnt right as they dispate charge though heat, all the wires seem to check out for continuity and they receve power from system when running
I've thought that myself about a short somewhere, the previous owner fitted a new loom to the bike after replacing the previous burnt out ignition switch and damaged cut off switch where the previous owner to him hot wired the bike so it would run.
Not sure where he got the loom from so could be of dubious quality but it is new by state of the wiring, but ive not found any damaged wires so far on my travels when ive had the bike in bits to change the headgasket and fit the replacement mudguard, ive also had the handlebar control switch blocks in bits too due to replacing the handlebars for 50's style ones ones and no sign their either. one thought could the short be in the stator coils or could the coils be overcharging as a fault enough to cook any reg/rec? when I did the clutch, the coils did look dirty ( mainly from old oil in primary ). onl;y other thing I can think is when i refitted the throttle cable yonks ago I must of touched the back of the Ampmeter as I threaded the cable back though the casquet, there was a small spark (ignition was off but obvioulsy must of cross the terminals )but could a short be inside the Ampmetre? it never really shows what you would expect and doesnt deflect much when the points open and when the bike is running last time is flickers in the centre rather than showing posative or negative, it only really acts as it should if you flick the indicators on with the engine off where it flicks into red then back toi centre.
I've thought that myself about a short somewhere, the previous owner fitted a new loom to the bike after replacing the previous burnt out ignition switch and damaged cut off switch where the previous owner to him hot wired the bike so it would run.
Not sure where he got the loom from so could be of dubious quality but it is new by state of the wiring, but ive not found any damaged wires so far on my travels when ive had the bike in bits to change the headgasket and fit the replacement mudguard, ive also had the handlebar control switch blocks in bits too due to replacing the handlebars for 50's style ones ones and no sign their either. one thought could the short be in the stator coils or could the coils be overcharging as a fault enough to cook any reg/rec? when I did the clutch, the coils did look dirty ( mainly from old oil in primary ). onl;y other thing I can think is when i refitted the throttle cable yonks ago I must of touched the back of the Ampmeter as I threaded the cable back though the casquet, there was a small spark (ignition was off but obvioulsy must of cross the terminals )but could a short be inside the Ampmetre? it never really shows what you would expect and doesnt deflect much when the points open and when the bike is running last time is flickers in the centre rather than showing posative or negative, it only really acts as it should if you flick the indicators on with the engine off where it flicks into red then back toi centre.
