dead battery

[NiteW4tcher]

ok weird one.............took it out for a ride. it started on button.

i checked its charging voltage and it was on 14.6v.....so off i went for a ride.

done about 15-20 miles not missing a beat.......then all of a sudden clocks died bike dead as a dodo.

so i took multimeter out and battery was @ 11.2V...wouldnt start on button. so i bumped started it....fired up first time.

got it home once again not missing a beat. battery was @ 12.3V but the charging voltage was no difference.

so im heading towards recfifier is on way out???? best not be stator....i replaced

stator , reg/rec about 18 months ago. and this battery is only 6-7months old.

[470four]

Yep, sounds like reg/rectifier... had similar problems with a CBR6 some weeks back, can make the bike seem possessed

[NiteW4tcher]

checking around it seems suzuki did a recall on the reg/rec and rotor on my bike....i will be checking with suzuki tomorrow on its recall status

[Cemorah]

try one of these easy to wire in immediate tell tale for charging circuit as you ride

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12v-LED-Ba...item2308f39a72

[NiteW4tcher]

called suzuki the k6 600, 750 were never issued with a recall...the k6 1000 was for failing rectifiers.

the rectifier i got from ebay was from a k6 thou just my luck its a bad 1 :



cheers gunterpot will have a look

[Andybusa]

I've had 2 batteries fail on 2 different bikes due to 1 fact.........they aint being used enough!! Bike batteries these days are so small they need to be used or charged most of the time or they will fail.

[NiteW4tcher]

i removed the reg rec today and after i finished stripping what i can of bike before engine is taken out i took the generator cover off to inspect the coils.

they all seem fine so must be the reg rec caput

[alanTDM]

If you got a block of wires going into your starter relay solenoid the problem might be the relay,If they are not protected very well all the road crap rots them out eg water,,and the contacts rot which causes miss fire and clocks etc going dead and not letting bike start.then next time it is all ok when ridden.

[Squashed_Fly]

If you got a block of wires going into your starter relay solenoid the problem might be the relay,If they are not protected very well all the road crap rots them out eg water,,and the contacts rot which causes miss fire and clocks etc going dead and not letting bike start.then next time it is all ok when ridden.

I had something similar on my old RS125. Took hours to trace that 2 wires had got hot, melted through the surrounding plastic, and were draining the battery.

[NiteW4tcher]

will check connections cheers