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Post by ger42 on Dec 8, 2011 16:17:57 GMT -6
Ger Lee gave me these directions to check the charging so I have copied for you Is the battery charging off the stator? Doesn't sound like it. Someone (Lefty I think) sent me a link of a guy in Oregon that rebuilds stators and can increase the power they supply to the battery some. Sounds like you may have either a bad stator or a malfunctioning regulator. You need to check continuity between wires 1&2, 1&3 & 2&3 thats ohms. If you don't have continuity between any of these sets wires you have a bad stator. if continuity is good then check or even better before you do that check the charging out put. Put the multimeter in volts setting put the meter leads on the bat. pos to pos neg to neg. Slowly increase the RPM it should read between 13 & 14.5 v dc. if it doesn't, check stator as stated before. If you want to check rect. reg. you must have a digital multimeter!! You have to set the multi meter to the diode setting. It looks like a triangle with a line through it and and across it. You have three white wires and a red and a black wire coming out of your rect. You have to perform forward and reverse bias tests. There is 12 tests in all. Disconnect the plug to the rect. Put you pos. meter lead on the red wire. As stated before the white wires are 1-2 & 3. Put the neg. meter lead on the white wires individually 1,2 & 3. You should not get any voltage if you do it is bad. (that was checks 1-3) Now take you neg meter lead and put it on the red wire and do the same as above wires 1,2,3. again you should get nothing. (checks 4,5,6) If you do it is bad. Now put your red meter lead (pos) on the black wire and check 1,2,3 again you should have .3-8v is the general spec. (checks 789)Now again put your blk meter lead (neg) and put it on the red wire and check 1,2,3 with the red meter lead, you should get .3-.8 volts if you dont your gonna need a new one.(checks 10,11,12). Whew sorry for the lenghty e-mail. Good luck bud Read more: scootdawg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=pmview&view=1&id=93892#ixzz1fylXapZ5Mike I done a whole lot of checking. Put a new regulator in changed the CDI. Bought a new $100+ battery tried to charge it but it would not go past 11.7 volts. Called company today they said BAD battery. They are sending me a new one. If I didn't think the dogs and wife would miss me I'd push the trike out on to a major road sit on it and wait for a semi. I wonder what is next. I haven't even gotten the new front tire installed. Good thing I didn't buy it yet. |
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Post by ger42 on Dec 8, 2011 14:49:20 GMT -6
I use a small pan then transfer it to a 5 gal gas container when the container is full it's off to Advance Auto to be emptied.
In the "good old days" we would dig a hole and dump the oil in the hole of dump it down the storm drain.
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Post by ger42 on Dec 8, 2011 14:43:56 GMT -6
Trying to figure out why it won't charge the battery. I changed the voltage regulator checked all the wires. Working with Jim to determine if maybe it's the stator. I hope not since my neighbor has been saying "it's the stator Chinese stators have a reputation for being bad". I so don't want him to be correct.
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Post by ger42 on Nov 30, 2011 14:52:19 GMT -6
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Post by ger42 on Oct 30, 2011 19:41:29 GMT -6
Your 5 yr old dog can learn just take your time and don't get upset. You must remain calm she doesn't know you or what you want. She is just learning about her new home and you. Above all remember she is a dog not a human. Treat her as a dog and all will be fine.
We lost a kitten years ago when a neighbor kid sat in a rocking chair rocked and crushed the kitten's spine. This was after she was told not to use the chair for fear of hurting the kitten.
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Post by ger42 on Oct 17, 2011 16:59:21 GMT -6
Retired and NOT loving it. No enough money miss the human contact.
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Post by ger42 on Oct 16, 2011 15:25:28 GMT -6
You should be seeing a radar map, Here in Plantation we are getting pounded. I can't walk the dogs it's raining so hard.
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Post by ger42 on Oct 16, 2011 14:31:49 GMT -6
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Post by ger42 on Oct 15, 2011 9:45:49 GMT -6
I'm trying to figure what I might be able to build to get the trike I've got coming up in the air to make it easier to do the PDI.
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Post by ger42 on Oct 15, 2011 9:40:40 GMT -6
We lived in Niskayuna, NY which is west of Albany. I miss the area just not the winters.
I'm all prepared for a hurricane got a generator that will run on propane or gasoline. Keep 5 propane tanks filled and about 25 gals of gasoline locked up outside. We have a propane grill. All openings are protected. Always have plenty of water and plenty of canned food. 2 months supply of dog and cat food.
Target shooting is a hobby. I have a firearm collection if things should get totally out of control I can protect us.
If a hurricane is forecasted within a week I go to the bank and get some cash.
When Wilma hit in 2005 we would have been in trouble if my neighbor and I had not shared our gasoline. We took turns running our generators with each of us hooking our refrigerators up to the running generator. We were without power for 5 days and gas was hard to find.
I have to admit I have been here 8 years and never been to the Miami beach area.
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Post by ger42 on Oct 15, 2011 6:08:13 GMT -6
I know ur kidding  Ya its been raining almost daily for a week and more than the usual 30 min rain per day then the sun comes out. I've been to Chi Town before, back in 2003 or so. Went to Navy Pier  I live in Plantation about 50 miles north of you. We haven't had day time rain since last Friday. That's the price you pay for living so close to the water. ;D My wife the kids and I lived in Wheaton,IL We left for upstate NY in 1991 then it was down to Fl in 2003 just before the start of all the hurricanes in 2004. I was assured when I took the transfer that hurricanes seldom hit south Florida.  |
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Ya its been raining almost daily for a week and more than the usual 30 min rain per day then the sun comes out. I've been to Chi Town before, back in 2003 or so. Went to Navy Pier 
