Troubleshooting your charging system

[BaZa®]

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[Gypsy]

After a couple of recent breakdowns and battery ,leads plugs etc replaced
in between ,finally checked the charge system .The cold weather brought it to a head and tho engine spun over not quite enough to spark up while out for a ride [,ok in warmer weather ,odd stumble on start happened] this was the gremlin .

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As you can see one wires all burnt n shorted 2 sections burnt and also wire sticking in air had come off completely
Did meter test for resistance and that showed fnek all ,,got motor runnin and did ac test and both probes in stator holes zilcho ,so that proved it

[Uncle Odd]

Originally Posted by dynamet1

Just a word of caution before you do all this! (and tend to look on the black side) My optimate was showing the red light for "Desulphating" just lately when put on charge after a night out and was after a day or even longer going onto the red "weak battery" light. After spraying the connector from the optimate to battery with some WD40 - all seems to be ok now. Doh!!

Just wanted to say how invaluable this thread has been. All the techi stuffs way over my head but the WD40 worked a treat