building new battery box for cb360, need to isolate from ground?

[tonuppirate]

Im in the process of building a new battery box for my cb360 using a smaller gel cell battery. location is in the same place but a much smaller footprint. and it will clean up the open space quite a bit. allowing for some sweet velocity stacks I ordered from slingshot cycles. I noticed that all of the mounts for the original battery box had rubber spacers, effectively isolating it from the cassis electrically. and all of the components i.e. voltage regulator, starter solenoid (which was wrapped in rubber as well) were attached to the box must be isolated from ground as well. my design just uses aluminum brackets which I cut and the original mounting holes to hold the battery in place. I did a test fit and tried to start the bike. the battery should have had more than enough power to turn over the engine but i got nothing when i hit the starter button. the lights came on but thats about it. So do I need to isolate my battery box and hang the electronics from it, or do only specific electronics need to be isolated from ground. maybe the starter solenoid was grounding out somewhere (i took the little rubber boot off) will it not work if it is touching the chassis? sorry for the questions but bike electronics are a mystery to me. I don't believe I damaged anything I didn't let the smoke out of anything that I can tell, couldn't see of smell it.
thanks
TP

 

[tonuppirate]

update, bikebandit shows only the starter solenoid attached to the battery box for my year bike. and the recitfier, regulator are to be mounted on the tool box. however there are clearly OEM brackets on the battery box for the rectifier, regulator, blinker and solenoid. argh I hate electrical crap.

 

[Big R]

Without seeing the bike or the wiring diagram, I want to say the rubber isolating the battery box is to protect it from vibration.

The R/R might be grounded to the frame, and the blinker relay should be protected from vibration as well.

Right?

 

[tonuppirate]

that what I was thinking, of course I don't run blinkers (or winkers as the japanese say) , so I'll probably just take that off, but one issue at a time i think. I'll mount the r/r to a good grounded part of the bike and isolate the solenoid and see what happens i guess.
tp

 

[Big R]

Do you have the factory wiring diagram? That would help out a lot.

 

[crazypj]

The rubber mounts are there to protect battery from vibration and can be ignored, battery will eventually vibrate apart internally though
Rectifier grounds through mounting bolt and/or green wire.
The regulator needs to be isolated from ground though if it can ground through caseit will probably destroy itself

PJ