Regulator and Kickstart alternatives

You can't simply discount things like that wire though, because if the unit IS a regulator then the red is no longer a clean filtered DC output any longer, it will be the post regulated power lead to battery most likely and two wildly different things. Absolutely will not work like that. You can't regulate something that is already regulated.

Your 'rebuilt' starter showcased more of your work, likely you messed that up as well and now blaming the charging system for damage you caused, and I don't think your bike ran like you said it did before as some things you show there are impossible to work like you say.

Why again I say start OVER and get somebody else that knows what they are doing working on it. You do not have the required skills.

I don't enjoy saying that and no insult intended at all but things are what they are and will stay that way until the mindset in control there is changed for another one.
 
You can't simply discount things like that wire though, because if the unit IS a regulator then the red is no longer a clean filtered DC output any longer, it will be the post regulated power lead to battery most likely and two wildly different things. Absolutely will not work like that. You can't regulate something that is already regulated.
Not sure what's going on with his bike but I have two regulators on my bike. One for the field coil and one for the stator output. Works great. Keeps the voltages in check for lithium batteries.
 
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The field coil automatically regulates the stator output anyway.

Now you may be running some sort of a voltage limiter there. Or maybe even moving the voltage range up to match the battery, lithium often wants more than 12 volt. Or like 16 ish at all times. You would have to have something beyond the norm to do that.
 
Kind of.
Stock regulator can't prevent over voltages.
Most lithiums and AGMs don't want the voltage too high. They can't boil off like lead acid.
I have an aftermarket adjustable regulator for the field coil and a shunt regulator for the stator output from a CBR125 in place of the stock rectifier.
Keeps the output from going too high.

The CBR125 reg was a straight replacement. Same connector.
 
I don't know much about lithium batteries other than the car guys kept wanting to get volts up to 16ish as the batteries wanted that. Hard to do with the ECM control overhead and the electronic regulator was locked into a certain seek volts too.

In an aside AGM can mean more than one thing, to me it's glass mat with gel electrolyte but I sold plenty of batteries claiming to be AGM (labeled as such) that used standard pour in liquid acid like the normal ones use. There is some confusion there. As to boiling off, the AGM have venting, I've seen Optima doing it when they have trouble. They are just not supposed to spill, even upside down.
 
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