I bought the bike with the blinkers not operating, so as I was troubleshooting that (leaving the key on for periods of time) the battery went dead. Well, the bike came with a brand new battery, and thought that strange - it only lasting that long. Trying to trickle charge this new battery with an ancient charger, I fried it (different story altogether). Fine I said, I'll start with another new battery.
I rode the bike around for about 100 miles with the new new battery before the battery went dead. The day it went dead on me, the kick start had no resistance, but I was able to jump it and get it home. On the way home it was idling around 2,000 (much higher than earlier in the day) at stop lights.. I haven't been able to keep it running since, so I pulled out the main wiring loom and began going through all the connections, cleaning and so forth. I did find a broken connection on the ignition coil.
Wires to the stator and field coil look fine. I have not gotten to the point of using a multimeter yet, so if my wiring loom maintenance does notwork, that will be the next step for me.
I am still very much new to street bikes (have played with cars and rebuilt some small blocks) and am still trying to get a handle on this three phase charging system. The archives have been good so far - haven't had a particular question to post yet without trying out all the advice I've found thus far.
