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Post by damin69 on Jul 9, 2010 6:48:35 GMT -6
Well The regulator from OregonMotorcycle shipped yesterday. I am hoping to have it tomorrow. If I get it I will try and install it on Sunday. Sofar it looks like I will have some good weather this next week so I should be able to give it a work out. I am not 100 percent sure what the Amp Rating is but on the site the lower end model of this said at least twice as much as the stock and that was comared to a 15 amp Japan RR. Tony did say that this was the biggest regulator he has. So I am hoping for very little voltage loss under a full load. I will let you know how it all goes. When I receive it and work on the install I will start a Thread just on that Regulator to document the progress and results I get. Oh and I got my Volt meters yesterday so I can monitor my voltage now to as I am riding. I will install that when I install the RR. Have a good day eveyone. I am off to Jury Duty..... Yah.... NOT.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 8, 2010 21:22:12 GMT -6
Thanks ZUG I sure could use some good LUCK soon.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 8, 2010 17:39:54 GMT -6
It one the motor cycle shop put in
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Post by damin69 on Jul 8, 2010 17:27:55 GMT -6
Well my dad left his Linhai at my house this week as we had planned a little ride this next weekend. Well today I decided to ride scooter in to work today as it was the first nice day this weed. So I hop on dads scoot as it is more reliable than mine right. Well I leave work and somthing just does not feel right. Stop look well damnit the rear tire is flat. I get it down to the coop fill tire with air mind you this tire only has maybe 1000 miles on it just had it replaced in march. No signs of a leak don't hear any thing then I push the valve stem to side its leaking like a siv crap that is the second valve stem now. About 100 miles after he put tire on the new valve stem leaked too. So any way now I am sitting waiting for him to come pick me up so we can go grab trailer and take this thing home. The part that pisses me off is that I am missing my youngest Last little league game I am suppose to be taking pictures for every one. So while I am waiting I'm on my blackberry posting this.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 6, 2010 19:44:38 GMT -6
Oh yeah I forgot to mention I had some time on my hands today and stopped by the local Motorcycle/ATV dealer he looked up a Honda RR for me. NEW $265 bucks. But he also said they were rated at around a 15 amp draw for the CF250/CH250 Honda Motors. Im not willing to Shell out that much for an RR.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 6, 2010 19:36:27 GMT -6
The top VRRPM3 is 5 wire. The one I am getting to try out is actually a 8 wire You can read Tony's quote below. This is a picture of the one I am getting to test out. I looked at it again and I do think the VRRPM3H would be a better choice. Also it looks like all the wire color codes match. This is also the highest amperage unit I carry and should last forever on a scooter... Since this unit senses voltage off the black wire, it's likely not to have the same problems of the VRRPM3 that sense voltage internally. One thing on this unit for you to be aware of is that the pos and neg out leads are duplicated. You can connect the 2 reds together or only use one for positive (the same for negative on the green wires.) Tony I did try out the cooler. It did not help enough I have been checking my voltage at my Reg and at my Batter they are not both the same now that I replaced all the wire that makes up the Charging circuit. I have all of that circuit running on thicker wire and by passed one plug and put in a good inline fuse to replace the one fuse the wires were running through in the crappy fuse box. by doing that my voltage drop was almost completely eliminated between the Reg and the Batt. Im not sure about the enricher. I have not looked at my Dads Linhai Regulator but I can sure tell you he has 0 problems with charging at all. Plus His manual acutally said that he could replace the headlights with 55/60 watt bulbs with no problem. And he never did have any problems. Heck I was down to pulling one plug of one of my head lights when I was running both halogen headlights he was running both. I was still dropping voltage until it would not start in about 5 hours. I just thought it was weird that the reg they are sending is rated at only 7 amps but the schematic clearly shows that being overloaded by over 2.5 times overall.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 6, 2010 15:27:17 GMT -6
Well guys I will let you know how it goes. I just got an email back from Tony I am going to be a bit of a Test Monkey for him on his VRRPM3H regulator and wire it up for my scooter. "This is also the highest amperage unit I carry and should last forever on a scooter.." Per Tony's quote. www.oregonmotorcycleparts.com/VRRPM.html I will let you all know how this goes... and keep you all up to date.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 6, 2010 14:37:58 GMT -6
I have been email back and forth with Tony a bit. He is working on a Regulator/Rectifier to possibly fix our issue but will be a bit of time yet. He may have a option that will work for us in the mean time. :-)
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Post by damin69 on Jul 6, 2010 13:18:32 GMT -6
Funny. They send me an order invoice showing 12 Volt Regulator 7amp. What the heck are they thinking? Heck Going through the schematic and adding up just the draw on the bulbs not including the clock or the Radiator Fan the scooter draws over 11.69 amps on bulbs alone. Add in another 5.8ish for the stock fan. That is 17.49 amps. DAMN no wonder them chinese regulators are over heating. That is nuts. I figure I am at about 8.04 amps draw before the cooling fan. Man where else can I cut. Maybe I should dissconnect 1 headlight that would drop about 2.9 amps total draw. Hmm It might be worth a try. :-(
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Post by damin69 on Jul 6, 2010 11:06:50 GMT -6
Well got hold of Evo and they are sending me a New Regulator so will give that a try. Maybe like said one before 3rd may be a charm.
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Post by damin69 on Jul 3, 2010 21:44:51 GMT -6
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Post by damin69 on Jul 3, 2010 18:45:23 GMT -6
Not quite the same size had to do a bit of modifying. I will post pictures later I Put a cooling fan on my Regulator also. I did not get pictures of the modded main fan lets just say I cut the round part off and used the houseing that came with the new fan.
By the way. I am still not charging. Everything went great started all day got back home and not enough juice to start it.
I did notice last night when my Regulator gets hot the output voltage drops down below 10 volts. That was the reason for putting the cooling fan on. After I put the cooling fan on the voltage always stayed above 12.7 volts.. Atleast during Testing. The volt meter should be here next week then I can monitor it better... Uggg.. This is so damn frustrating. 1 step forward 2 steps back.....
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Post by damin69 on Jul 2, 2010 23:44:45 GMT -6
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Post by damin69 on Jul 2, 2010 15:09:26 GMT -6
How do I know what the temp is getting up to without gauge to go by?
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Post by damin69 on Jul 2, 2010 6:26:06 GMT -6
Thanks Zug that would be a huge help to.
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