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[Les H]

Hi Dean. I've looked up the Nfieldgear site (clever name, terrible slow website) but no tech info available. It seems that apart from the ignition you have a problem with the charging side of things. If the wiring is standard then the ammeter will show show the charge current and discharge of the ignition. So as long as you have even a small amount of positive charge showing on the ammeter 95% of your riding time, it seems odd that your batteries are running down. Perhaps someone has wired the ignition directly to the battery or missed out the ammeter in some way with the ignition unit, and you also have weak charging....the two combined will cause a discharged battery and not give an indication that this is likely by reading the ammeter. So I would get a good ammeter 25 amp prefered and wire this in in series on the battery earth lead (or on the positive lead as long as all connections are summed together).... Monitor the current drawn in the following conditions: 1) Everything switched OFF 2) Ignition switchen ON engine stopped 3) Ignition ON but monitor during kicking over 4) Start engine and run to medium revs........NOTE: DO USE ELECTRIC STARTER WITH AMMETER IN CIRCUIT....USE KICKSTART....perhaps after warming engine up and then doing the test with ammeter. 5) With engine running switch on sidelights......Results: No reading with engine stopped should be more than 3-4 amps drain and with the engine running a positive reading should be obtained from about 1000RPM upwards. Do the checks and see what you get....Note this is finding out the abttery discharge problem but it might also detect if the ignition unit is causing a heavy drain current....but one step at a time here is needed.