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Possible to damage Stator by giving a jump start?
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<blockquote data-quote="MrUnlucky" data-source="post: 198080" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>Checked the stator wire voltages when I got to work yesterday morning and had 4.3, 4.8, and 0.2.</p><p>...so it's the stator.</p><p>Charged the bike last night and by the time I got to the gas station I had to push start it.</p><p>But</p><p>I charged it while I was at work today, and as I rode home I started to wonder if there was maybe a dead short causing that 0.2v (the wire was also noticably hot). So when I got home, I left it idling and unhooked the wire (no connector, they've been wire-nutted with jumpers for over a year now) and tested again.</p><p>4.3, 4.8, 6.3</p><p>6.3?! So I reconnected the wire.</p><p>I checked the voltage at the battery and had 12.5 even though the handlebar gauge read just under 11 (and the accessory screws that power the voltage gauge read 11.7 on the multimeter, I don't know who to trust anymore...). At this point, I'd been riding and idling for about the same amount of time that it took me to get to the gas station this morning, and had only reconnected the 0.2/6.3 wire for about five minutes, but when I shut her off she started right back up like normal.</p><p></p><p>I'm still keeping it on slow-charge overnight and probably should get the battery checked, but I'm still going to go ahead and collect the parts for the Poorboy conversion because I think the 6.3 might still be a bad sign (do failing stators do that?). *maybe* I didn't have a proper connection on the wires when I read the 0.2 and now its fixed, or maybe there's a nick in the wire going from the stator connection to the reg/ret (or wherever it goes once it jumps into the wiring harness) and I wiggled it the right way, idk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrUnlucky, post: 198080, member: 4550"] Checked the stator wire voltages when I got to work yesterday morning and had 4.3, 4.8, and 0.2. ...so it's the stator. Charged the bike last night and by the time I got to the gas station I had to push start it. But I charged it while I was at work today, and as I rode home I started to wonder if there was maybe a dead short causing that 0.2v (the wire was also noticably hot). So when I got home, I left it idling and unhooked the wire (no connector, they've been wire-nutted with jumpers for over a year now) and tested again. 4.3, 4.8, 6.3 6.3?! So I reconnected the wire. I checked the voltage at the battery and had 12.5 even though the handlebar gauge read just under 11 (and the accessory screws that power the voltage gauge read 11.7 on the multimeter, I don't know who to trust anymore...). At this point, I'd been riding and idling for about the same amount of time that it took me to get to the gas station this morning, and had only reconnected the 0.2/6.3 wire for about five minutes, but when I shut her off she started right back up like normal. I'm still keeping it on slow-charge overnight and probably should get the battery checked, but I'm still going to go ahead and collect the parts for the Poorboy conversion because I think the 6.3 might still be a bad sign (do failing stators do that?). *maybe* I didn't have a proper connection on the wires when I read the 0.2 and now its fixed, or maybe there's a nick in the wire going from the stator connection to the reg/ret (or wherever it goes once it jumps into the wiring harness) and I wiggled it the right way, idk. [/QUOTE]
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