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I am having charging problems. Basically the battery won't charge. The reading at the terminals of the battery with the engine running is no higher than 12.5 or so running even past 5,000 rpm's. The old regulator was all crusted in acid junk, and the connector was eaten away. I put a new one in, and the battery is still not charging. I checked out this page
http://www.electrosport.com/Images/fault_finding.pdf
and started going down the list. After deciding that I had 4 or fewer different colors of wires coming from the regulator, I tried the next step. I'm guessing that the white wire is the out put wire of the regulator. I checked that and found that the reading was something like 0.25 V. I also checked the next step and found the black/yellow wire was also really high, higher than the white wire. My plan is to just run a jumper wire for the black/yellow wire and see if that helps. What should I do about the white wire? It runs off to the junction box, and the ignition switch.
Is this diagram worth it's salt? I'd really appreciate any help, as this electrical problem is driving me nuts.
-Ben
http://www.electrosport.com/Images/fault_finding.pdf
and started going down the list. After deciding that I had 4 or fewer different colors of wires coming from the regulator, I tried the next step. I'm guessing that the white wire is the out put wire of the regulator. I checked that and found that the reading was something like 0.25 V. I also checked the next step and found the black/yellow wire was also really high, higher than the white wire. My plan is to just run a jumper wire for the black/yellow wire and see if that helps. What should I do about the white wire? It runs off to the junction box, and the ignition switch.
Is this diagram worth it's salt? I'd really appreciate any help, as this electrical problem is driving me nuts.
-Ben