This is from Wayne from North East Alabama:
I noticed your link about dead batteries, after just having mine to fail me on
a trip to Thunder Beach this year I thought I would share some info with you.
I too found my connector toast when I got back home and replaced it by butt
splicing the wires together, and thought my problem was sovled until I started
looking for a meter of some type so I could keep a check on my battery. I found
a handy little gadget called the Heads-Up Voltage Monitor, it's a single multi-
colored LED that changes color depending on your battery/charging system voltage,
very small and easy to mount. Well after I got it mounted it was telling me I
still had a problem, my voltage was running low but yet enough to keep a low
charge in my battery. After some more surfing I found this "Fault Finding Chart"
from www.electrosport.com, after following the easy steps I found that the ground
wire from my rectifier wasn't making a good ground, so I cleaned it and also made
another ground wire that runs from that ground point to the negative side of my
battery, like they suggest and now my T's charging just like it should. I'm sure
if I had not found the faulty ground I would have soon toasted my rectifier or
stator too, you can find the Heads-Up Monitor at www.cyclegadgets.com,
I hope this helps.
Wayne Berry
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