i seem to remember cargo saying that a race bike, no lights, on battery power alone will do over a hundred miles, so you should be fine if that info is correct?beermaker wrote:right - have remade the burnt out connections, tested the alternator (resistances ok, no shorts to each other or shorts to earth and puts out a good healthy 49VAC on each coil at 4000 RPM). Took the reg/rec off and cobbled together several batteries and followed the testing procedure - looks like the rectifier is OK but the regulator is paggered hence why it's putting nearly 20VDC into the battery. Will get a replacement but in the meantime - is there any harm in leaving it disconnected and running the bike on battery alone so I can get to work (obv. charge it up on an evening!)? I can't think that there would be but would appreciate if someone knows for sure!
you might not have enough batter juice to start the bike when you want to come home, so you might need to practice your bump starts
oh and try to run with your lights off, they drain loads of power...
