[Aussiebloke]

G'day All. Did a thousand km ride last weekend and halfway the battery boiled in my 92 FXR due to a regulator failure. The only thing I could due at the time in the middle of nowhere was disconnect the regulator and ride home on the battery with a push start after refueling. When I got home I got out the multi meter and tested the output to the battery which climbed to 18 volts confirming that the regulator was stuffed. I replaced the regulator with an old one I had in the shed and now the voltage has dropped back to the required 14 Volts. While testing the Stator for resistance between pins (0.1-0.2 ohms) as per the manual I got a zero reading which supposedly indicates a short. If this is the case, why is the stator still producing charge?

[chucktx]

what are the volts with all the lights on, then off, regular idle, and a high idle. if they fluxuate with draw and stays at 14.5 you dont have a problem, except that maybe you misread the meter or book?????? i would retest.....

[Slimjim]

You may know more about reading a meter than I do but to read that low of resistance, you must use the RX1 (lowest) scale. Anything higher would look like a dead short on the meter. If the bike is running and you read 14v across the battery, it's not shorted. You won't read a voltage across a dead short.

[Aussiebloke]

Yer, that's what I thought, if it's pumping out voltage there can't be to much wrong. I'd better have another look at how I'm reading the resistance and then just forget about it and ride. Thanks fellas