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Offline decotriumph

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Charging issue on 1483
« on: September 03, 2018, 07:52:37 PM »
Last week I was riding and stopped for a few minutes. When I went to start the bike, it wouldn't start. Turned out the cable connections were loose at the battery. Fixed that and it ran fine. This evening I stopped for gas and when I started back up, the bike started slowly but finally fired. However, the battery warning light was on and stayed on all the way home (15 miles or so). I can't say for certain that it wasn't on before that. It was very sunny and I may have missed it earlier. Anyway, when I got home, I turned the bike off and then tried to restart it and it didn't have enough juice to start. I'm hoping it's a bad battery but fearing the stator. We'll see. I won't get a chance to look at it very closely for a couple days (and it's hotter than hades here), but I'll try charging the battery first and then test it. Any insight?
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Re: Charging issue on 1483
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2018, 12:24:48 AM »
Something to keep in mind here: the idiot light on the dash is nothing but a voltage indication. It's not actually diagnosing anything working or not working. It only illuminates when the voltage drops below a certain level (10.5V I think).

With that in mind, a fresh battery might start the bike and everything may look fine as you start down the road, only to have the light eventually come on again as the new battery dies trying to power the bike.
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Re: Charging issue on 1483
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2018, 08:19:40 AM »
Alan....
I was following you on Facebook yesterday.....

As stated 3 years battery life, although seems short... From my expaerience isn't all that unusual. Dennis Bennet outta S.D. also had one go 14 years... Very unusual to say the least.I got 5 out of my last one, and it surprised me.

Get that new battery in and test with volt meter... Should be at least 13VDC (13.2as Russ indicated)with bike running.

No good voltage, pull stator plug, with bike running, should be 60VAC, test across any 2 of the 3 plugs... And keep testing 2 til you get all 3 phases tested. All 3 have to test good..   no good? It's the stator.... Common on X's that didn't run tune or oilcoolers in a large portion of the bikes early life. VAC good, it's the regulator..

Good luck... and feel free come back if more questions

Bruce
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