At 03:38 PM 8/3/2000 -0500, Sanders, Eric wrote:
>Hi Dash,
> I don't know if this will apply, but it's a try:
>I had a car that had charging problems, and my father told me to try
>cleaning the battery ground connection at the chassis. The connection
>looked as clean as a whistle, of course. After sulking for a few minutes,
>in my desperation, I scraped the connections anyway. Guess what? Yep, it
>worked. Sometimes there really _is_ more than meets the eye. Good luck!
>Hang tough,
>Eric
>Colorado Springs
>A13L
Thanks Eric,
I have narrowed it down to one wire being the problem but I just don't know
which one
actually I do know the circuit that has the problem. I spoke
with Electrex again, Paul just got off the phone with a competitor of his
that buys their regulators. Paul asked him if he had ever had troubles
with a KLR. The guy said "Oh Yeah" and hard to find problems as well,
definitely in the harness and with a connection. That's all the specifics
I could mine out of him.
I did some tests and there is Zero Loss between the Ground and the
Reg. There is also Zero loss between the Hot and the Reg. The problem or
circuit that is lossy (lousy) is from the hot to the Ignition and back down
the switched 12V Hot, to the Reg. That circuit has several peripherals so
there are a bunch of connections to investigate. However, I am going to
fool the reg into overcharging the bike briefly just to narrow down what
leg has the problem. I'm also going to remove my fan relay from that hot
line and put it on it's own hot line with a new fuse too, the 88 fan
relay's aren't fused like post A4's
One thing that I did change and may have been a huge contributor is that I
put my Headlights on relays rather than all the current through the brown
(bl/w) wire. I ran a separate fused always hot wire from the battery to
feed the relays. That change in normal drop on the brown wire may be part
of it.
It makes sense because now the reg sees a line with more voltage than
normal, more voltage to the reg means that it has to output less to the
Battery, thus charging it less.
This I'll investigate as well, but I doubt it is the real culprit.
On a side note, all the grounds to the chassis, engine and battery are
squeaky clean as in I went over each and everyone with sandpaper, contact
cleaner and a bit of determination to eliminate them as a possibility.
laterZ
Dash