bought this from the net for Christmas last year for grandkids, it has cooked 3 batteries. Under warranty sent stator and reg....didn't help 2 regulators later still over charging. at idle 13 volts has idle goes up peaked at 17.8 volts...unplug regulator stops charging. any help would be Appreciated

 

You are the third person to complain on here about this. Some bikes don't have a voltage regulator, but only a rectifier. Theory is the alternator produces just enough power for charging, so won't overcharge the battery. Either Tao Tao have been fitting this type of rectifier and too large an alternator, or Tao Tao have been sending out bikes with faulty voltage regulators. It is, apparently, no good buying new genuine "regulators" from them as these are no different. Buy a none genuine regulator, just make sure it has the same number of wires or pins for the wires.

 

I have the 4 pin have not been able to find any other that have 4 pin

 

A quick eBay search shows thousands of them. However I suspect some translation problems from the Chinese may have produced confusion as to what is a rectifier and what is a regulator, your picture shows something suspiciously like a rectifier. This one looks more like a Regulator and because it has wires, you can check they match your wiring plug. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-4-Pin....c100281.m3567

 

have couple ordered see if any work

 

I have tried 5 different regulators, 2 stators, to no avail. Tao Tao sent me another regulator, that was a bigger one, said it would fix it. Rode for 20 minutes, fried my 5th battery. No idea what to do at this point. Tao Tao doesn't want to help anymore. I have now spent money on 4 of the 6 regulator/rectifiers. Its gotten really frustrating, being its only 6 months old, and hes only got about 4 hours on it.

 

Right now I unplugged regulator plug.....unplugged lights . Not charging rode all day just put on trickle charge.at end of day. I was told they put to big a stator on these models

 

how do we find the right stator? No part numbers or anything. Right now I have a 6 coil stator.

 

They are sending me another. let u know what they sends works....I also bought a Apollo at same time no issues. I may take that apart see what stator in there. I was told it's not a regulator it's a rectifier. I bought 3 other heavy duty ones for other bikes. They didn't fix problem. I was told that a few got this stator that puts out to much voltage. The old ones only put out about 13 volts. Just enough to keep the battery charged and the rectifier could do it's job. I was hoping someone here had more ideas. Repair company told me this.

 

https://partskit.com/product/search?q=104423 this is the last rectifier they had me install. It was a little bigger than the previous ones they sent me. Still didn't work. Is it possible the stator is putting too much to the rectifier?