sio
Junior Member
So, found out the battery wasn't be charged the hard way after stopping after a long (1 hr.) ride and turned off the bike. Tried to start the bike and the battery didn't have enough amps to turn the engine over, and I got stranded a couple miles from home at 11p at night.
Here's what I have found out so far but I'm stumped now.
When I start the bike and pull the positive terminal off of the now freshly charged battery it idles perfectly well running only off of the generator. A solid 12.5v coming off of the R/R. When I take it up to 5k RPMs my voltage drops to +/- 9.5vs and all of the instrumentation turns off and on due to the low voltage. I checked the ohms between each coil and they read (+/- .02 ohm) .15 ohms. I also checked each coil to ground which reads a greater than infinity reading so no short on any of the coils. Now coil to coil ohm reading seems to be below spec according to the service manual at .22 - .34 ohms. So I am leaning towards a bad stator. I did replace my R/R initially thinking that was the problem area but with the used but good part in there, I am still producing the same exact problem.
Question is: would that low of a coil to coil ohm reading on the stator mean a bad stator?
Bike is an '07 w/ 12k miles on it.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Here's what I have found out so far but I'm stumped now.
When I start the bike and pull the positive terminal off of the now freshly charged battery it idles perfectly well running only off of the generator. A solid 12.5v coming off of the R/R. When I take it up to 5k RPMs my voltage drops to +/- 9.5vs and all of the instrumentation turns off and on due to the low voltage. I checked the ohms between each coil and they read (+/- .02 ohm) .15 ohms. I also checked each coil to ground which reads a greater than infinity reading so no short on any of the coils. Now coil to coil ohm reading seems to be below spec according to the service manual at .22 - .34 ohms. So I am leaning towards a bad stator. I did replace my R/R initially thinking that was the problem area but with the used but good part in there, I am still producing the same exact problem.
Question is: would that low of a coil to coil ohm reading on the stator mean a bad stator?
Bike is an '07 w/ 12k miles on it.
Thanks in advance for any advice!