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Post by stanley1973 on Mar 18, 2013 16:23:50 GMT -5
please could anyone explain why my battery charges at 15 volts is it to high or is it my reg or rec or my pamco cheers.
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Post by richard on Mar 18, 2013 19:01:25 GMT -5
Mine charges at 15 volts read off the battery terminal and when it has been sitting for a few days. After about 15 minutes of running it drops back down to 14 volts and cycles kicking in at about 13 volts on the low and off at 15.5 volts on the high. The way you can tell if it is not regulating is that charging voltage will rise and fall with RPM all the time, even after it has had plenty of time to charge the battery. On my bike the regulator senses voltage off the brown wire which supplies voltage to everything. That wire might be the black wire on yours depending on the year. Mine never goes over 15.5 volts no matter what speed or how high the RPM, if it went to 16 and stayed there for any length of time I would be worried. I have been running like that for other 3000 miles with no problems. An over charging regulator will cause lights to seem too bright and cause bulbs to prematurely burnt out. Sometimes the main wire, brown or black doesn't see all the voltage the battery gets because there are a lot of spade connecters and your ignition switch between it and the battery. So power to the switch on red, switched power to the brown and everything is energized from the brown. I try to get electrical connections as clean as possible for more accurate regulation and the ignition switch contact resistance factors into that, so I checked that too. Hope this helps Richard
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