ok. so my battery died. 2 days in a row. 2 new batteries. must have a completed circuit somewhere, but no blown fuses. it's a bike. if i had something wired wrong, and connected the 2 opposite charged wires one way or another, shouldn't that blow some fuse? that's the only thing i can think of thats causing it. btw, it's not the stator since the bike is running if jump started and held over 2000 rpm. does anyone know how to test the battery, regular rectifier, and the stator using a multi-meter or something? i'm decent at electrical shit but this blows my mind. it started doing it after i took the subframe off, and put it back on, and connected all the shit back together, but i checked and re-checked, there is no faulty wiring, i'm pissed off at this shit. anyone out there really good with electrical shit willing to help out.


msg me if you know what you're doing. it's an 03 suzuki gsxr, will buy a case of beer or something to whoever fixes this shit. and i mean fixes, for good.

[Edited on May 3, 2006 at 4:17 PM. Reason : ]

5/3/2006 4:08:23 PM

pull the neg. battery terminal and hook a test light (or multimeter) b/w the terminal and battery post. it will show a current if there is a drain.

start pulling fuses until you locate which circuit has the drain and trace it down from there.

5/3/2006 4:20:00 PM

i'll try that. also, do you think switching all the fuses to an extremely low gage could help to test it? all of them are 10 right now, which is pretty low already, so whatever is connected, is just sipping on it slowly.

5/3/2006 4:23:29 PM

just find where the drain is.. then trace down the wiring.. at least you'll narrow it down a lot... could just be a bad ground or something.

5/3/2006 4:41:44 PM

Quote :

"pull the neg. battery terminal and hook a test light (or multimeter) b/w the terminal and battery post. it will show a current if there is a drain. start pulling fuses until you locate which circuit has the drain and trace it down from there."

5/3/2006 5:18:22 PM

Try to check current draw without anything turned on as others are suggesting.
You can disconnect the regulator and measure ac voltage between all 3 terminals. The R6 does something like 20 V for each phase at idle.
This might help too:
http://www.sradmad.co.uk/downloads/brochures/600k1.zip

[Edited on May 3, 2006 at 6:46 PM. Reason : idle]

5/3/2006 6:46:14 PM

if you can get it running and bring it by my house on saturday, i could probably track it down in 15-20 min

5/4/2006 8:00:17 AM

i'll try all this this weekend. got an exam tomorrow, its gonna be a bitch though, since wiring is in a damn harness that i'm gonna have to rip open all the way to look at every wire...

5/4/2006 2:17:53 PM

stator

5/4/2006 2:27:00 PM

^was just replaced not even haldf a year ago i think

5/4/2006 2:54:09 PM

partially shorted stator

more than likely blew out your rectifier which in turn kills your battery

get a new stator, i know, 250 bucks sucks balls for a stator and 150 bones for a rectifier and another 60 for a battery

i know, i know...

im telling you its the stator

5/4/2006 11:37:46 PM

easy to check, should have about 40 ohms across all three wires to each other, and nothing to ground on each one, running there should be about 25-30 volts ac at about 3000 rpm. if that checks ok, then disconnect the rectifier and check for 12-14.5v dc, if not then thats your problem.


my guess would be a bad didode in the rectifier causing the current draw, but guess what burns up those diodes?........a bad stator

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 7:30 AM. Reason : blah]

5/5/2006 7:28:21 AM

still haven't taken shit apart. been running the bike without headlights (unplugged) and it works fine. so it's either the headlights are shorted out and draining it slowly while it's off, or simply the stator or the rectifier dont put out enough charge to recharge the battery while the headlights are burning. need to test that. when exams are over and it stops fucking raining.

5/7/2006 3:33:43 PM

that thing will run forever without charging if the headlights are unplugged, battery will probably last 4-5 hours of riding like that

[Edited on May 8, 2006 at 10:21 AM. Reason : blah]

5/8/2006 10:21:22 AM

well, i plugged the lights back in yesterday and rode for a few hrs today, and a little yesterday, still seems to work fine, gonna give it a few more days see if it helps...

5/9/2006 8:42:55 PM