Recent content by auhenry

Okay quick update, so it turns out that my regulator is putting positive charge to my green wire. Checking from the field coil connector I am getting roughly 9.5 Volts DC when I measure from the green wire to a ground. I am getting about 10.5 Volts DC when I measure from the brown wire to...

So I just finished a small rewire on my XS400, lengthened some wires and shortened others up to help them fit my cafe/brat seat. Just finished connecting all of my new terminals and plugging everything in and what do you know, it isn't charging. I am running a brand new R292 regulator for the...

Okay, I'll give the old one a test. I'll probably end up doing a rewire for the old beast this winter anyway; my fuse "box" is pretty sketch and might as well take care of as much as I can while I'm not riding for a couple months. If the rectifier is pooped I'll be doing my homework to see what...

Okay, so it looks like that will work for me after all. Any suggestions with a rectifier? I see a lot of used ones on ebay but with the amount of problems people have with XS400 charging systems I'm kinda weary of that route. Are there any other good (cheap) alternatives for a new rectifier?

Okay, so just got the new rec/reg in tonight and it looks like its a piece of junk. I tested the rectifier side of things and right out of the box it failed the diode test. With that in mind it looks like I'm onto finding something else that will work :doh: Arfstorm, I see you have your...

Okay, just got my rec/reg ordered. It's a one piece unit from www.regulatorrectifier.com This one is probably best because my unit isn't body ground and just having one "box" to hide will make it easier. I'll let you guy's know as soon as I get the new piece hooked up.

Sounds like a bad regulator in that case, is there any way to test those directly or should I just go ahead and grab a new one?

I gave that wiring test a try, getting no resistance for both green and black wires from the field coil connector to the VR connector. I did find something interesting though, while I was playing around with the multimeter I noticed that both wires are body-grounded. I was getting a little less...

Okay, its been a while and I've done some work. I've redone my wireing to my field coil and stator and decided to give it a couple tests. I'm getting the usual 4 ohms resistance for my field coil and 0.8 ohms on all legs of the stator. What didn't do too hot is when I tried the razor blade...

Well I switched my wires leading off of my field coil and when the bike was turned on (not running) she seemed to be all right. There were no blown fuses like I had before when I tried turning it on. Now before I sent my field coil to the guys at custom rewind it was doin just fine, 4 ohms of...

Okay, I'll see if I can try switching those wires tonight, busy with work as always. But arfstorm I think you and I are thinking different things when I say turned on the bike. I meant I just flipped the key to "ON" without getting the engine started. I don't think having the rectifier regulator...

Hey, just got my stator rewound by the guys over at Custom Rewind, looks like a very professional job and the guys were really helpful and quick with the job. All in all the charge came to 100$. The custom rewind guy's seperated my stator and field coil too which didn't seem like that big...

Definitely a SOHC. But it looks like my rectifier regulator has gone from 30$ to 500$... WTF I see a couple of different options online. Does anyone recommend any in particular?

I think I have a SOHC... not exactly sure

Well that sucks, I've heard of a couple of different ways to (in theory) fix this. I've heard of a custom rewind site and a permanent magnet charging system swap. I have looked into the Custom Rewind guys and they look pretty good but I'm wondering about this permanent magnet swap. Does anybody...