Check all your grounds to....

 

Well went thru grouns and B+ cables cleaned everything. Load tested the battery and it was bad, but it was 3yrs old, it was an oddessy. So I bought a new oddessy battery started right up and ran perfect for a few hrs then just like that the lights dimmed, so I shut if off then tried to start and nothing battery is to dead to turn over again WTF. So now Im chaging the battery to start up ds againt to see if it is the charging system

 

My friend also has a DS. It came with a 9 volt battery. It would start and run ok but he kept blowing tach's

Just a thought...

-Moose

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: yammimoose

My friend also has a DS. It came with a 9 volt battery. It would start and run ok but he kept blowing tach's



Just a thought...



-Moose</end quote></div>

The double check that you have the right battery part got lost.....

-Moose

 

I think we are back to the rectifier. Cynick mentioned it in a previous post. If the battery isn't charging, it is rare for a stator to go bad. I would buy a new rectifier at this point and go from there.

 

Thanks for the help people! I bought a shop manual tested everything and yup its the rectifier. So I already have one on order. And also I do have a Ron Woods C.D.I in the DS

 

[img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img] Your cdi is bad Aceisback had the same problem up at sand mountain utah battery went dead [killed it] run like hell ,drove a hundred miles for a new battery bike run good for 30 minutes, then like poop then fried the new battery some one had an old cdi and a older battery the bike run good. Get you a volt meter,disconnect the positive battery cable put the volt meter between the battery and the positive cable turn on key you will likly see amost a dead short, unplug the cdi box to see if the dead short goes away, if not unplug the voltage reg., then the stator, that it theres nothing left[img]i/expressions/musicnote.gif[/img]

 

Yea when I unplug the 2wire clip from the rectifier the bike stops acting up and runs good but then I have nothing for a charging system. So its got to be the rectifier says the shop manual.

 

I suppose it could be either the rectifier or the CDI. Test it as Ray described and you should know.

 

That's what fried my rectifier and in the end my battery. I installed the stock cdi until I bought my Vortex and had no problem after that.