Flat battery

[RandomDan]

12.97V this morning, started without any fuss. Will find out for sure if there's any issue next weekend.....

Lose cables or connections maybe?
Could cause it to drain if you have anything exposed and knocking around but not after a ride if you see what i mean?

[speedy231278]

At present I'm working with the theory that the bloody great pothole I hit last time out upset my temporary fix on the charging circuit and it flattened the battery on the way home. It lost a tiny bit after I got back on Saturday, and an entire 1/100th of a volt overnight. Unless I get back next Friday and find it flat again I'm thinking/hoping that repairing the wiring correctly has sorted the issue. I'll find out in due course...

[RandomDan]

I think that is a reasonably assumption, teach you for making a quick fix

[speedy231278]

Well, it was a quick fix because I didn't want to start chopping the wiring about until I had a spare stator and Ive also got a long window without needing the bike coming up, but in the end I had a 'sod it' moment and hoped for the best. To be fair, the crimps I put on previously were very firmly attached when I took everything apart again. I was expecting to have found one of them to have come adrift.

[RandomDan]

Thats fair enough you tend to just find that a 'sod it' aprouch only causes more problems later on.
Unless your lucky ofcouse.
Least it seems to be all sorted now though!

[speedy231278]

All soldered up now, relatively neatly considering how awkward it is when the thing is still attached to the bike. I fail to see why Honda decided to have the output from the alternator go through the V of the engine to a connector on the right side of the bike, into the loom, then across to the left side of the bike for the reg/rec on the subframe. I won a generator set and reg/rec on eBay last night (a whole 99p!), and I've got a connector repair set on the way too. Might take the feed straight down the left side of the bike and bypass the loom altogther, seems a bit daft it going round the houses to get there!

[RandomDan]

Im sure honda had there reasons.
Not that over engineering is the reason this time just seems daft, just more wire to fail really.
Bargin!

[speedy231278]

Well, everything was happy this weekend. I'll put it down to a crappy connection breaking or hampering the charging system before I fixed it properly.