My 2000 SP 500 has a problem, the electronics dont work. Brand new battery #2, and still nothing. Even when the bike is running, nothing works. Now I know everything is hooked up correctly and I havent come acrossed any shorts in the system, so what is wrong? I've heard it may be a bad rectifier? Or voltage regulator, which I thought was the same thing. Can anyone help?

 

SOUNDS LIKE THE VOLTAGE REGULATOR. I HAD THE SAME KIND OF PROBLEMS WITH MY. AND THE REGULATOR HAD TWO WIRES UNPLUGED.

 

Does voltage regulator = rectifier???

 

not quite the same thing... a voltage regulator regulates how many volts go into the appliance thus its name

a rectifier is like a one way valve almost lets voltage go only one way

 

Ok, so what am I looking to replace? What/where is the voltage regulator?

 

see if u can run a volt meter across the wires that come out of the voltage regulator and see what it reads