It's been awhile since my last post, doing some routine maint. on the ol' girl, and still having a problem with the charging system. I've since removed the R/R and stator and sent them to Ricks electrics in New Hampshire, he checked both units out and said they are working within limits. I also installed a 10 gage wire with an inline 30 amp fuse from the R/R to the pos. post on the batt., and a 10 gage wire from the neg. post of the batt. to the frame.Also looked at all the connectors and fuses cleaned all connections, fuses and used dielectric grease on them.I got the R/R and stator back from Ricks electrics installed them started the engine no problem, 14.4 volts. rode to work on Monday 24 mile round trip no problems 14.4 volts. On friday went to the Triumph dealer to get some oil 12 mile round trip on the way back voltage was bouncing up and down 9-12.3 volts.got home shut the engine down tried to start it nothing just solinoid clicking. Put the Batt. Tender on over night, started the engine this A.M. let it heat up steady voltage then it started in again 9-12.3volts I disconnected the plug from the R/R to the stator to check the voltage from the stator, at idle 16v.ac at 3k rpm about 36v.ac. Pluged in the R/R volts bouncing up and down unpluged it again checked the voltage from the stator same reading as above. At this the engine quit batt. discharged I checked the ohm reading between the pins on stator plug I got .9-1.0 ohms, then I checked from the pins to grnd got infinity. I'm thinking that when the R/R or stator heat up that there is an insulation break down causing this problem? I read through the threads in the forum and nobody has had this continuing problem. Either the stator was bad or the charging wire was replaced. does anybody have any further thoughts on this problem. Getting desperate. Thanks
