I had a similar problem. The battery on my bike would die every week or so. I'd charge it over night and I'd be good for about a week. I had already replaced the battery and ignition switch and a couple other things do to failure - lots went wrong in 2015 / 16 (88,000 mile 1996 750). I had my mechanic take a look and my battery was around 12.5 and maybe 12.8 above 3,000 rpms. He pulled apart the stator and saw a significant amount of rust - price of living in Hawaii. We spent time really cleaning the rust out of the stator and the amps went up to 13.5 or higher even at idle. That was about 4 months ago and the bike hasn't had any problems. I have also noticed it starts better. It doesn't sound like you have a rust problem but cleaning the stator and brushes might be worth a try.
Sean On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 5:12:59 PM UTC-10, jman2343 wrote: > > > Bike not running I'm getting 12.5 at the battery. The display in the pic > is tapped into the meter back light. Even running voltage doesn't change > much , over 3000 rpm I never see over 12.9 at the battery (voltage display > in the meter hangs around 10.9) I've checked stator and brush. I don't > think it's the regulator. With the voltage difference I'm seeing between > bat and connection at meter light, I think it's resistance somewhere. I > did jump the key switch to rule it out. My next guess is fuse panel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
