johnnyg
Junior Member
So the last couple of weeks I've noticed that my headlights significantly dim in time with my blinkers, it's particularly noticeable at night. Sometimes it seems like my idle revs are bouncing in time with the blinkers too. I'd expect a little dimming, but I feel like the blinkers shouldn't be drawing that much juice?
Also not entirely sure if this is related but every now and then the engine will sputter a bit, it seems like it happens when I'm trying to maintain constant speed, and it's at specific gears/rpms, ie 4k in 6th gear. It's a little unnerving when I'm just trying to hold speed on the highway, or do a low speed turn through an intersection...
The only electrical related mods I've made are a 12v outlet to my Replay XD camera (which I unplugged for the tests below), and a Backoff XP brake light modulator (which I only added a few days ago, these symptoms predate it).
So I've poked around at this thread http://www.600riders.com/forum/fz6-general-discussion/53137-bike-sputters-1k-2k.html and this post http://www.600riders.com/forum/showpost.php?p=579412 but I'm at the limit of my diagnostic abilities...
When the key is switched off there's 12.8v across the battery terminals. It dips down to 11v when I switch the key on. Then it dips down to 8-10v while starting. When the engine is idling it's back around 12.8v, and then when I rev up to 2.5k-4k rpms the voltage only ever gets up to 13.4v, so that's low, right?
I also checked the RR plug, and got the expected .2-.3 ohms between the white stator wires, and no connectivity between each stator wire and the black ground wire.
Been lurking a while, you guys seem like smart fellas, any ideas?
Also not entirely sure if this is related but every now and then the engine will sputter a bit, it seems like it happens when I'm trying to maintain constant speed, and it's at specific gears/rpms, ie 4k in 6th gear. It's a little unnerving when I'm just trying to hold speed on the highway, or do a low speed turn through an intersection...
The only electrical related mods I've made are a 12v outlet to my Replay XD camera (which I unplugged for the tests below), and a Backoff XP brake light modulator (which I only added a few days ago, these symptoms predate it).
So I've poked around at this thread http://www.600riders.com/forum/fz6-general-discussion/53137-bike-sputters-1k-2k.html and this post http://www.600riders.com/forum/showpost.php?p=579412 but I'm at the limit of my diagnostic abilities...
When the key is switched off there's 12.8v across the battery terminals. It dips down to 11v when I switch the key on. Then it dips down to 8-10v while starting. When the engine is idling it's back around 12.8v, and then when I rev up to 2.5k-4k rpms the voltage only ever gets up to 13.4v, so that's low, right?
I also checked the RR plug, and got the expected .2-.3 ohms between the white stator wires, and no connectivity between each stator wire and the black ground wire.
Been lurking a while, you guys seem like smart fellas, any ideas?