Need Electrical Help!! By pryce (Read 3,173 times)

[Bashan]

I got 'em but it was an epic battle.

[Bashan]

That is one weird arse stator, at least from what I can see. Look at this pic:

The nice stator is on the right. See the green arrow, that is the start of the wire that is contiguous throughout the coils and is actually the white wire which you see ending at the white arrow. Now, in the middle at the yellow arrow you see a wire tapping into the middle of the white wire. What shall we call that? Hmmmm...how about a CENTER TAP!!? That makes the yellow have fewer coils and ergo less juice. To make this work the white and yellow run out to do their thing on the bike and ground back to the stator. That allows the AC cycle on each wire and it completes it by coming back to the stator on a ground. So white and ground equals one circuit, and yellow and ground equals another. If you can't wrap your head around that just say so and I will taunt you. And then I'll make a diagram. Fine and dandy, it works quite well. Now WHERE THE HELL IS THE CENTER TAP ON MR. NASTY STATOR!! OK, I'm calm now. That looks to me like the stators that aren't center tapped and just have the two wires that are equal and constitute the legs of a lighting circuit. They do not ground and the R/R produces just DC:

I should know, I roasted that very R/R. I used the extra crispy recipe. If you'd like to read about that and a bunch about stators and R/Rs you can access the thread right here. Now maybe Mr. Nasty Stator has that tap but I can't see it. BTW, I think the ground on the nasty stator frame is for the magneto coil, the AC power to the CDI. It does the same trick, one red/black wire and a ground equals a circuit.