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**Ian900SLV** · 08 Sep 08, 08:18 AM

Hope this is not the shape of things to come with the new bike, when I started up yesterday the charge light stayed on. I removed the battery and checked the two yellow wires, and all seemed well they had large bullet type connectors with no sign of overheat or corrosion. I cleaned them anyway along with all connections to the reg/rec.
I put it all back together and started up. Put meter across the battery and was getting 13.1V rising to about 14.3V at about 4K so appears to be charging. Put the lights on and the voltage dropped to 12.8V rising to 13.9V at 4K
Is this a sign of impending reg/rec failure.

08 Sep 08, 08:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ian900SLV L-plates Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: East Midlands Posts: 74 Ian900SLV's Gallery Bike: 1995 916SP	Charge light on Hope this is not the shape of things to come with the new bike, when I started up yesterday the charge light stayed on. I removed the battery and checked the two yellow wires, and all seemed well they had large bullet type connectors with no sign of overheat or corrosion. I cleaned them anyway along with all connections to the reg/rec. I put it all back together and started up. Put meter across the battery and was getting 13.1V rising to about 14.3V at about 4K so appears to be charging. Put the lights on and the voltage dropped to 12.8V rising to 13.9V at 4K Is this a sign of impending reg/rec failure.