Hey all,
So I finally am at the point of finishing touches on my 75 CB550F. Went to ride it the other day and it died on me. Did some tests and figured out the battery was not charging. Looked into it a little bit more and went through some tests I found on this site to test things.
Anyways I went to test the regulator/rectifier and I wasn't getting anything from the white wire. Started the bike up, hooked up the multimeter and ran a wire directly from my battery to the white wire coming from the stator (bypassing the regulator/rectifier) and wouldn't you know it, after revving the bike up the voltage on the battery started to climb.
This leads me to believe that the Rick's Regulator/Rectifier is not functioning as it should. I'm in a bit of denial at the moment because the damn thing is brand new. So I guess what I'm looking for is for someone to tell me why it's bad or that I did something wrong lol ;D. I mean, it's brand new, how can it be bad? What could have caused it to go bad?
So I finally am at the point of finishing touches on my 75 CB550F. Went to ride it the other day and it died on me. Did some tests and figured out the battery was not charging. Looked into it a little bit more and went through some tests I found on this site to test things.
Anyways I went to test the regulator/rectifier and I wasn't getting anything from the white wire. Started the bike up, hooked up the multimeter and ran a wire directly from my battery to the white wire coming from the stator (bypassing the regulator/rectifier) and wouldn't you know it, after revving the bike up the voltage on the battery started to climb.
This leads me to believe that the Rick's Regulator/Rectifier is not functioning as it should. I'm in a bit of denial at the moment because the damn thing is brand new. So I guess what I'm looking for is for someone to tell me why it's bad or that I did something wrong lol ;D. I mean, it's brand new, how can it be bad? What could have caused it to go bad?