Electrical Issues

[ridinfool]

Hello,
New member here, just wondering if anyone else knows of issues with the charging system? I've been through 3 regulator,rectifiers in the last 2 weeks, and they all are getting fried. The dealer put the latest one in, and it tested bad right out of the box. He got one off of a bike on the floor, put it in, tested good. I went for a ride, 300kms later, it's bad. The bike is going back this week, but trailering my bike is not what I had planned when I bought it.

 

[owl]

I've never heard of this before.

Sounds like there is a fault which is frying the rectifier, not with the rectifier itself?

 

[Blastedbones]

Hi, & sorry to hear of your problems

 

[xhdskip]

Nope,
this is definitely a new issue to me.
I agree with owl, seems like its something else wired incorrectly shorting them out.
Welcome to the site BTW.
skip

 

[RooK]

That is strange.... maybe a floating neutral could do it.. I would check the ground connectors (follow the wire from the battery negative under the left side panel)
Other than that would be a real faulty (totally out of specs alternator.... windings done wrong but that would be very unlikely
Lastly an intermittent short between the regulator and fusebox.

 

[Fred F.]

I've heard (never experienced) that if the battery develops a dead cell even though it may still start the bike it will put a strain on the charging system because it will never reach full charge. If all else fails have the battery load tested at a battery place. It's also possible I'm FOS. It has been known to happen (already a couple of times today !)

 

[budman]

..ghost of Lucas..

 

[Fred F.]

..ghost of Lucas..

****, thats a great link ! I may do that to my R3 just cuz'

 

[Fred F.]

"The R3 already has a Shindengen MOSFET R/R, unlike other Triumph models"


Get the f__ck out !!!

 

[ridinfool]

Thanks for the welcome. This is a 2010 roadster, so it is under warranty, but ****, I bought the bike to ride, not continually use my trailer to go to the dealer, (100km away). I will pass on the info posted for the mechanic to peruse. I haven't done any upgrade or changes to the electrical system. Hopefully they can find the cause, but I'm still really worried, seeing as one reg/rec was bad right out of the box, Doesn't instill any confidence.