Steve,sepia wrote:thanks guys.
charged battery over night & bike been starting easy 1st time allday.
got a shot of a meter,hears some readings off battery.
@ lunch time bike not started it was 13.44 bike running it was @ 14.04
mid afternoon bike running it was @ 14.98(touched 15.01) & went to 14.68 when reving
late afternoon bike running 13.40 & 13.68 reving
tea time bike running 13.02 & 13 .68 reving
any conclusions from these readings.
thanks steve.
Those figures seem to be in the right ball park to me, 15.5 volts iirc is acceptable so you're under that. I'd be interested too, to know what the readings would have been with the lights on.
You're not going to be losing anything by fitting a finned type rectifier, as your non finned one will pack up sometime.
When you had this problem before you said it was something to do with the indicator or wiring for said indicator, did you ever look into that There could be something there draining the battery by a small amount, so that when left over night the battery is partially drained by the morning. A simple way to test this idea would be to disconnect the earth (-) battery lead when you part it up at night, then re-connect it in the morning.
Chris.