Guys:
The Enterprise was unable to crank 2 times this week, and 4 times during the last month. Every time that I got this problem, I just pushed the bike and fired up the engine. Then she works fine until I got the problem again. This morning Scotty connected the digital voltmeter to the battery and showed us 12.20V. Cool. I fired up the Enterprise and in a matter of seconds the meter reading was 13.5V @ 1000RPM. I just left the bike warming up, went to the kitchen, my wife was mad because the mess the kids left last night, and when I go outside the Enterprise was warmed up and ready to rumble, but the meter was reading 15.05V @ 1100RPM!!!!! :headscratch: I connected and spare voltmeter and got the same reading. Scotty tell me "Capt. Jungo we have a voltage regulator failure" , I replied: "I know, but can an over voltage drain a battery?" I presume that if we got less than 11.7V in our charging system, next time we try to fire up the Enterprise will not crank up. But in this case, we got over 14V and some times the battery can't crank the engine. Probably sometimes the voltage drops and I didn't noticed, because the Enterprise voltmeter is out of service. I bought a new one from Harbor Fried Chicken, but didn't install yet.
Any thoughts?
The Enterprise was unable to crank 2 times this week, and 4 times during the last month. Every time that I got this problem, I just pushed the bike and fired up the engine. Then she works fine until I got the problem again. This morning Scotty connected the digital voltmeter to the battery and showed us 12.20V. Cool. I fired up the Enterprise and in a matter of seconds the meter reading was 13.5V @ 1000RPM. I just left the bike warming up, went to the kitchen, my wife was mad because the mess the kids left last night, and when I go outside the Enterprise was warmed up and ready to rumble, but the meter was reading 15.05V @ 1100RPM!!!!! :headscratch: I connected and spare voltmeter and got the same reading. Scotty tell me "Capt. Jungo we have a voltage regulator failure" , I replied: "I know, but can an over voltage drain a battery?" I presume that if we got less than 11.7V in our charging system, next time we try to fire up the Enterprise will not crank up. But in this case, we got over 14V and some times the battery can't crank the engine. Probably sometimes the voltage drops and I didn't noticed, because the Enterprise voltmeter is out of service. I bought a new one from Harbor Fried Chicken, but didn't install yet.
Any thoughts?