Electrical gurus?

[pete376403]

Go here; http://www.thegsresources.com/garage/gs_statorfault.htm more info than you knew existed for charging circuit fault finding. Ignore the fact at it is at a Suzuki site - they all work the same way. You will need a voltmeter, a cheap digital from Dick Smith is adequate, as long as it does AC and DC volts and resistance.
This site has a whole tutorial about charging systems, including how to rewind your own stator

[bogan]

Go here; http://www.thegsresources.com/garage/gs_statorfault.htm more info than you knew existed for charging circuit fault finding. Ignore the fact at it is at a Suzuki site - they all work the same way. You will need a voltmeter, a cheap digital from Dick Smith is adequate, as long as it does AC and DC volts and resistance.
This site has a whole tutorial about charging systems, including how to rewind your own stator

Bloody good fault finding chart eh! We actually had it printed out and were referring to it the first few times, found the stator ground short the first time, but now it doesn't point to any faults.

Winding guide and other explanations look good, will have to peruse later.

[ducatilover]

Cheers will start reading the winding guide etc. I have a more than good enough multi meter and can find my way through electrical junk reasonably well, have just never come across anything like this before.

[jonbuoy]

The current stator is within spec according to the manual, it's at 0.4ohm when the engine is warm.

Unless you have a high quality meter that 0.4 ohm isn´t too helpful, a shorted out stator will also read near enough 0.4 ohm as will probably shorting your meter leads together. Its just proves the stator hasn´t gone open circuit. You need an inductance/flyback tester to check coils properly, otherwise swap out.

[ducatilover]

Unless you have a high quality meter that 0.4 ohm isn´t too helpful, a shorted out stator will also read near enough 0.4 ohm as will probably shorting your meter leads together. Its just proves the stator hasn´t gone open circuit. You need an inductance/flyback tester to check coils properly, otherwise swap out.

Meter leads are 0.2 ohm on mine. I'll swap it out and see what happens.

[Brian d marge]

before u go running about , a bulb 12v in series to earth as per sketch, if bulb brightens at anything over Idle on all three, output wires then all is well , try reg/rec /earths etc ( try earth first including earth from stator
Also make sure it isnt a forth wire , black sometimes this is FROM the battery to the stator , and is a different system , some Hondas use it , St1100 and fireblades ( from memory )

Stephen

[ducatilover]

I'll give that a whirl, cheers. Am just reading up on stator theory, the one i have in there is delta wound, but I'll check to make sure none of the connections are backwards, I imagine that would change the output?