Fred WBut without spending a buttload on spring loaded, weather sealed connectors, maybe a good butt splice and solder job is what's called for here?
I am willing to spend a few bucks for 'environmentally' approved connectors. Jim at
Eastern Beaver has relatively decent prices, is a great guy, a rider, and a man of his word. So yeah, I'll replace the OEM 'Molex' style with something better. I am not a OEM purist. Mfrs' have to deal cost points, to a fraction of a penny. I don't.
LAFHowever something still nags me about it. I have the anti spider bite harness on the fans and lights, been to all my spiders except the two in the nose and they are soon. Use AC 50 on all plugs I see and can pull, sealed any relays I could find with liquid tape along with the spiders. Just a pain in the ass to deal with electrics for me so I hate it. However if I should be seeing 14.4 then to me my bike is not right somewhere.
I don't think you'll ever see more than 14.2 at the battery with a FJR. The FSM says:
RR 'Regulated Voltage is 14.2 - 14.8 V' - obviously a spec from the RR sub-supplier, this is what it CAN do - but the real point is at FSM page 8-229 -
Checking the RR - "Charging voltage 14 V at 5k rpm". Note that this is an *unloaded* Vdc measurement of the RR. Sorry, but big whoop, really. 14 vdc unloaded, really? Mine measures 15.9. Assuming 14.0 is (minimally) acceptable, then what's the expected reading at battery given nearly 1.5 - 2 feet of wiring and 3, 4 connections later? No wonder 13.5 is seen, or less, as the connections erode, get dirty etc. Best case scenario is marginally, IMHO, 14.2 across the battery of a gen 2 FJR.
I wonder if anyone can prove differently as measured across the battery terminals, using a NIST calilbrated DVM?
road runnerDid you say the bypass wire you made was bigger than the factory wire? If so, it could be saying the factory wire and or connectors aren't big enough, especially when loads increase.
For now, yes, marginally larger. I think IonBeam is is correct, the connections make all difference. I just read an interesting article in a MC rag about all the things mfrs have to go through when building a bike.. the cost analysis are complex, and I fully understand why some cuts are made to the minimum specifications as supplied by the engineers. And you can imagine the EE's going full boat BustaNut about why their perfect design is reduced to sell motobikes. Things like cheap-ass connectors vs environmentally sound connectors, wire gage size, etc. Hell, Gen2's add what, 100 watts? more power and the same harness as Gen1 bikes, (EDIT - not true!) the consequence being fried ground spiders, ignition switches, etc?
BustI hope that bypass wire pokes through the seat and frys what's left of yer ballz flea dick.. Sorry fuker can't answer his emails
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deer amigo Bust, you have NEVER sent me an email.. You texted some gibberish my poor ol phone couldn't decipher..