regulator rectifier

anyone repair rr? mine isnt charging and im tired of buying crap. im good with elecrical stuff like soldering and wiring so if you know a way lmk. im thinking the signal wire is fooling it that its ok and dont need to charge.

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If it is a 6 wire R/R, unplug the sense wire (Brown) briefly while monitoring voltage. It will go to over 15 quickly, maybe 18 even so watch it you can blow bulbs and other stuff.
This is why I suggested to unplug the head lamp and watch the output across the battery. If the R/R is working, decreasing the load should show a charging voltage of a correct value around 14.5 or so.
If this done and charging looks good under less load, then look at total system demand vrs output. You may need a over wound stator, which would make more amperage, or maybe just take care of poor connections, or resistance in the system. Total system current and total alternator max output should be checked.

ok head and tail light unplugged same result and brown wire is not effecting the result when unhooked. so im wondering if my intermittenly working highbeam indicator is also a part of this as its on one circut.

Sounds like you need to go back to checking the ACV on each combination of the yellow stator wires, where it goes to the R/R. Each set of yellows should produce 56 ACV. If low you know you still have a stator issue. Possible connections from the actual windings and the yellow harness wires.

new stator, new wires that i soldered all in, its the regulator, i busted it open with a hammer and the inside wires were toast. so its getting the seprate wired in regulator and rectifier i have or a 5 wire. what a pain. i hope my new stator isnt cooked ill be upset.

Probably had one diode in the rectifier toast. that will drop one leg of the stator, and give low output.
Wire in the new combo R/R and hopefully all will be sweet.

i hope so my float sprung a leak so i got that to fix now. and its all a mess as i got a noise that im hoping is just back lash from flooded cyl.

I have a bobber style 305 that I just bought and the guys who did the chop bypassed the regulator all together, does this automatically mean that I need to buy a new one or do any of you know how I might check it?

You need a voltage regulator (or rectifier/regulator) on the bike. Without a regulator there is nothing to control the voltage. Consequently, as you rev up the engine the voltage traveling through the electrical system can go above the 15v limit that the regulator would provide. This means you will very likely blow out light bulbs and possibly cause other problems with components such as coils. Ed

Zachs305 wrote: I have a bobber style 305 that I just bought and the guys who did the chop bypassed the regulator all together, does this automatically mean that I need to buy a new one or do any of you know how I might check it?

that is ac voltage that you are playing with there buddy, expensive to repair, expensive to zap yourself. I would take the fender off before it is a Bobber.