> Mark-
>
> I was experiencing the same syndrome on my bike, which made me reluctant
> to ride it very far! Pulling out the regulator/rectifier, I found that
> one of the three diodes was shorted, producing almost enough current
> to run the bike, but not enough to charge the battery. After an hour
> or so of riding, the battery was discharged enough to not start again!
> Replacing the reg/rect solved the problem! Bring back the kickstarts!
>
> Pops
> A036
Yeah, I've had that before as well, but only once.
BTW, I'm not sure what type of bike(s) you're used to, but have you seen the
regulator circuit on a Harley? Disgusting... it puts an SCR accross the
output and starts to short things out when it get's a bit too high (that's
what it looked like to me anyway, but there's a lot of silicon in there and
I might have scribbled the circuit down wrong). Just think of the power
lost due to back EMF!
Cheers,
Mark.
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