General Electrical System Question

[Mhanis]

Thank you Bob! Being a very non-technical person I thought I'd give a shot at explaining what I have learned from this thread and one on another forum.

I wish I understood more/better, but my brain starts to get overloaded pretty quickly when talking about electrical stuff.

And I would have bothered responding after reading Howie's reply, but we were doing it at the same time!

Mark

[silas]

I just replaced my regulator/ rectifier on my '98 M900. This is the 4th one in 37000 miles. (original, a used one off a Grand Canyon, + the Ricks one all failed). The last one was a 2 yr old Ricks' and I don't think it was the mofset kind. Their newer ones appear to be so.   With the last one (Rick's) , the stator connectors to the R/R were smoking and hot all the time. When tested via Electrosport's directions its' 2 reverse diodes had failed. I just installed a new Shindengen Mofset from roadstercycle.com   With my Shorai lithium battery it's 13.8 volts at the battery while running now, a little less when off.  All good now. No hot connectors. I plan on increasing the stator wire gauge at some point all the way to the inside of the stator, maybe at the next oil change. Currently my old oem stator wires go up to the new, long R/R's 3 wires. I ordered the new r/r w/ long enough 3' stator wires that are coiled up for now.