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Your battery will still settle around 12.6 probably. I wouldn’t be too concerned at the drop after a charge up.
To check for drain you could use a meter on a amps range and put it between the battery and positive lead (i.e. disconnect the positive lead and connect one side of the tester to the lead and the other side to the battery). Do not start the bike on the starter like this it will draw way more than your meter will handle. But with all the electrics off it should give little to zero reading.I am going to take a guess here that the Passport office website will be on a .gov site and not a .co.uk or .com etc. So watch out for anything other than .gov for anything to do with the government (passport, licences, tax and such).
Nice write up Michael, a little mashed by Google translate but can get the gist of it and it covers what needs to be done to get the starter working.
Should be giving a voltage across the two wires to feed the coil. Again I’d be satisfied with close enough as far as the ohms across a coil, and shouldn’t you be checking between the two, i.e. one probe on one end of the coil, and one on the other.
Hey guys, don’t give up. I’ve had my fair share of problems when I got mine. The forks were bent, the fork yokes were bent when they were done and the brake unsiezed I got it MOTd. It blew the ignition coil on the first ride, and only 2 miles from home. When it was running again it ran for around 5 miles and the lights dimmed. I had to push it the last mile home. That was due to the alternator coils having been damaged and bodged up.
I’ve had her nearly 8 years, and every year I think I’ll get rid. Every time I ride it the urge to sell it goes again.
If you’re using the B4 book things will be different from a B2. If your regulator isn’t working correctly you won’t charge correctly and could blow bulbs (as the neutral light is probably the only one on then that would go first).
Your manual says there should be a different reading across the coils from what you’re getting, but as long as it’s similar on all pairs of them and not open circuit and not going to earth anywhere I would take that to be near enough. Your meter won’t be that accurate and the slightest resistance across the connections will change the reading (if you haven’t hit the plug connectors nicely or have some crap on them it will change.)The exciter (field) coil may be causing a fault, check it with your meter again across the two wires. It would be worth checking you get a voltage from the regulator going into the field coil supply wires too.
That checks out just fine Tango. The coils are all connected together at one end and not to earth, and as they are long single wires in each coil you should have very little resistance between each pin.
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Glad you got there in the end Tango. And you managed it even with KK’s help which makes it that much more of an achievement 🙂
