OK so my charging system may be boinked, I sure hope not. I checked my batt and found it was quite low on water, I seriously need to get a gelpac or something! It was about half full. I was too excited to finally go for my first ride and forgot to check it. rode about 40 miles and was at a stop sign and my bike died. Elec start did not turn at all. Well I kicked it and got it going and rode the 5 some miles back home. Upon testing, with key off, I was around 11 volts, key on dropped to like 9 something. Not very good. Started it with kick and revved to 5000, no load as in honda manual, made it to about 11.5 volts. ok Now I am a bit torqued! Went in and ate and went out to do a little tshooting. Filled batt with purified water, cant find charger though. However, when running and revving the engine, voltage slowly climbs and I got it a little over 12 volts now. Better but not quite enough.
Now I have had the batt a couple years now and it was a cheapo, walmart things as I did not have enough to get a good batt. Bike runs ok and I wrung it out some and hit 60 in 2nd gear!
In town...in a 40 mph zone! So it seems to be getting its spark.
But I was only gone for a couple minutes and thats it.
So my first Q is this, With the batt being low on water, it may need to be replaced or will it just take a bit of time on the bike to charge?
Second, in the event that it is the charge system, I need to do tests. I no longer have access to a good fluke tester and no funds to get one, especially if I need to get a batt, is there ways to test for continuity with a cheapo tester? I have a cheap 10 buck thing and it is relatively accurate for volts and ohms. Can I do modified test to do continuity?
