• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

610 battery charging at idle but not at revs?

F

Flynn

Husqvarna
A Class
I have a weird problem with the battery on my bike.

It lasts for about 10 days/just under 2 weeks but eventually runs out.

It seems that the more I open the throttle, the less the voltage at the battery.

At idle, 14.3 volts. I opened the throttle to about 3k and saw it go down to 8 volts.

I have pulled the stator plug and measured the stator pins to each other, they have roughly 20vac each which is nominal. Their voltage also increases significantly as the engine is revved.

But at the battery, different story.

It seems as though the reg/rec is bleeding off too much current as soon as the stator is putting out higher than idle voltage.

I have a new battery and that got depleted. I did have a problem with the earth point which was causing starting problems but I cleaned that all up and tightened it.

I have just today rechecked it's tightness.

The only signs that the battery was going flat was a weak neutral light and the fact that it wouldn't start at my off road play area, had to tow start (can't seem to bump a big single), rode the bike 10 miles home, measured voltage when I got home, 10.41 volts. So when the engine is working, it's not charging the battery, only at idle.

Before that there was no indication that it was faulty, started in the morning just fine, this has happened a few times now. How long would it take for a battery to go flat if it wasn't charging?

I am trying to figure out a timescale for how long it would be.
 
It was the plug on the starter relay which was working loose and not making a good connection. I want to wire the voltage regulator straight to the battery as a belt and braces approach.
 
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