Hi Rude,
Welcome to this great Forum.
Two things;
1. Stop yelling!
2. Check
THIS out! :up:
Exactly!! Turn your caps lock off :roll:
Most any time you're trying to diagnose an electrical problem, you start at the battery and work back from there.
How old is your battery? Are all connection at battery good? Have you had it load tested? Check the charging system if you can get the bike to run.
A good charging system will be putting out around 13.5-14.3 VDC
Anything less than 13.3 or more than 14.5, I would be looking at the voltage regulator as being bad. If the voltage fluctuates a lot from idle up to 3000 rpm, you might have a stator problem. To check the stator output, you will need to test at the plug coming out of the engine case. Unplug the stator, put your test probes from your multi meter, one wire into each wire of the plug. So the positive goes to one wire, and negative goes to another (does not matter which one goes to which, just as long as you have both your test leads going to both wires coming out of stator plug)
Meter should be on VAC Now start the bike, at idle you should see around 19 VAC and climb with the rpm as you slowly reach 2000 rpm, it should climb up to around 45 VAC.
Take note of all the numbers you are getting with these tests, and post them here.
Another thing to look at is the ignition key switch itself. Is it the old 5 degree, or the 50 degree switch? With the key switch in the ON position, turn key slowly to the OFF position. If it seems to turn off right away, around 5 degrees of movement, then it's the old style and most likely is giving you problems. If it seems to turn off with a lot of movement, more like at 50 degrees from ON, then it's new and probably ok. The switch is only 2 wires and you can splice together to keep bike ON for testing purposes.
The ignition system itself is separate from your EHC. This is a bigger problem than the EHC itself. I have seen time and time again where someone thinks the EHC is bad, and come to find out it was really the Ignition module.
When the bike dies out, do all the lights stay on? Can you start it right away, or do you have to let it sit for a few min?
