My battery numbers are consistent....It is a lithium ion battery...sits on a 750mA charger when im not testing it. Off the charger its 13.56V....after an hour there is no change....Turn Key (running brake lights and a speedo light) 13.2 (with Headlight 12.9)....After running tests for an hour with lights and stopping and starting the bike, the voltage obviously goes down. I have done tests with a brand new lead acid battery with no change in results (I believe I reported that in an earlier post)
I hotwired it today. When I just hotwire the POS Batt to white and NEG Batt to green in the block connector I get 18VAC between the yellow wires and idle about 20 @ 2k and up to 60 at 5k....obviously no charge to battery.
When I add the 3 yellow R/R wires to the block connector with the above hot wire I get 10 VAC between the yellows at idle and only up to 12VAC at 5k..the battery charges from 12.9 at idle to 13.3 at 5k.
BATT NEG to R/R Green 12.05V idle
Battery neg to either of the R/R greens should be near zero volts in any case, at any RPM. If you are reading 12v, the green wire is NOT grounded.
I apologize. I was measuring the green field coil wire at the block connector...these wires are all starting to blend together
The green field coil wire should also be zero volts from the battery negative terminal. ALL solid green wires are connected to ground.
I was working with a bad test wire that I was connecting to the Field coil green and ground....I replaced it and these numbers followed.
Right, so the Ricks R/R has 3 Yellow/ 1 White / 1 thinner Green / 1 Black / 1 Thick Red / 1 thick Green.
They were connected as shown in the Diagram on an early post....yellows, white and thin green to the block connector...black to AUX Fuse block....thick red to POS.....thick green to NEG.
I was getting 14.1mV on white when on and 1.2mV on block connector green
If I disconnect the thin green from the block connector I get 12V on the white wire....I also get 12V on the green connector tab....
If I GROUND the thin green R/R wire and use a test wire to ground the field coil green (from block connector to ground).....white read 12.9mV at the block connector and green at the block connector reads .3mV
The White wire gets 12V when the bike is on and its not connected to anything....just dangling from the R/R.