GL1500 alternator update ...

.... there's **** all wrong with it, apparently.

<goes to check battery again>
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..78875.../...19731.../..31242.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR 2005: Abandoned - Bronze Award.

 

... there's **** all wrong with it, apparently.

Get a man in...........


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Robbo
Trophy 1200 1998
BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004/2005
B.O.S.M 2003, 2004, 2005
FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449
PM#7
..

 

Regulator?

I had one go on the Diversion, but only after I'd replaced the battery!

 

Regulators *in* the alternator - charging away quite happily, by all
(two separate) accounts.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..78875.../...19731.../..31242.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR 2005: Abandoned - Bronze Award.

 

Check earths and connections but a duff battery would cause hard to trace
problems.

If you've exhausted your patience/abilities I'd be tempted to get an auto
electrician to have a look.

They have the tools and experience to sort these things more quickly and
ultimately cheaper than replacing every bloody electrical item one by
one..

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Probably. Thing is though, I mean, that 1500's fucked. Hardly worth
anything at all. Be a real problem finding some mug to out that to.

<wanders off to inspect piggy bank>

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Just checking, most bikes have a separate regulator.

 

C'mon, you would be in big trouble if you showed up with another enormous
tourer. It's not like you've just sold a bike or anything...

 

IIRC, most modern cars also have that arrangement.

 

OK, so apart from the roads, law and order, sanitation . . .

 

ROFLOL. Nice.

 

Cars do yes.

 

My point (other than Wings are just two wheeled cars anyway) is that
modern motorcycles, particularly less sport orientated ones, share more
car technology and construction techniques than perhaps in the past.

 

That's true, but non-sports bikes are probably not in the majority
either.

 

"your mum"

 

?

 

Having left the battery on Optimate all week, I checked the voltage:
12V.

Key in, choke on, press starter.

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It must have turned over for a good thirty seconds before catching.

Stick meter between pos terminal and frame - 14.5V.

Aaargh!

Still, it was cheap, I suppose.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..78875.../...19923.../..31251.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR 2005: Abandoned - Bronze Award.

 

Salad Dodger wrote

The ultimate battery test.

Bang on the money.

I don't understand. There isn't much wrong with a battery that will
spin a 1500 for half a minute and yet you seem to think there is.

 

Three weeks ago it wasn't budging from 12V when charging. I cleaned
and tightened *everything* - no change. Had the alternator checked -
nowt wrong. Only the battery left.

Re-fitted the alternator and re-charged the battery and now it seems
to work o.k.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..78875.../...19923.../..31251.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR 2005: Abandoned - Bronze Award.

 

See reply to the elderly reverend.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..78875.../...19923.../..31251.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR 2005: Abandoned - Bronze Award.