YamaDuck

I am fine. Today is my Birthday I made it to 67. I ride a 2010 HD Electra Glide Ultra Limited now. Don't like it as much as my old MM but at least I can still buy new parts when I need them. I don't ride much but do ride one long trip a year. Take care everyone, Harry

My Venture takes a bulb. Dont remember what the number is maybe H4? I bought a 40w 80w LED bulb. It looked good but I had to run on high beam to see anything. Reflective paint like signs and tape really popped and were very bright at night from far away but the distance you could see on the road was greatly reduced. And the blue high beam indicator light on the dash was always on. I took it off. Maybe they have gotten better over the past year.

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That is the battery volts. Bike not running but everything connected. It may have been the cheap meter or it could have been the fool trying to use the cheap meter.

I can't find the dang bad connection! I did find a connector that the clip had been broken off. I just touch the wires and the connectors came apart. I zip tied the connector together which may have been part of the problem. You see the guy I bought this bike from told me a little untruth when he told me it had never been wrecked. I later found the damage in the lower left fairing. That is where I found this connection that the connector was broken. So this is what I have just done. This test is with engine off and bike at rest with all battery cables connected; I looked at my 11 Alive active radar and nothing in sight so I measured the battery and it was 12.78 volts. I cranked it up put a tape it the tape deck (and it works) turned up "The Who", turned on the CB, put the high beams on high, made sure the LED driving lights were on, and turned on the two 55 watt lower driving lights, oh and hooked up the GPS and turned it on. Everything is on except the green LED's and I did not hook up the heated suit as I would not run them and the lower driving lights at the same time anyway ( I think that would be too big a draw). I headed to the gas station 3 miles away and filled it up. I then headed to Staples and made some copies. I then went on a ride for at least an hour. I would have been longer but the rain was coming down so hard I was having a real tough time seeing where I was going. So started at 12.78 volts When I got home it was 12.89 volts One hour later it was 12.84 volts. Looks good to me. May not be as good as it should be but at long as it is charging that is good enough for me right now. I replaced the RR and that may not solve the problem but it certainly helped. Harry

Flyinfool hit the nail right on the head!

I got the H4 Led replacement bulb. I can not recommend them at least not the one I got for around $60. You have to run it on high beam at night just to see a little ways down the road and when you dim the lights the blue dash light does not go out it just dims also. Most people said in the daylight on dim they could not even tell my headlight was on.

I've got the Northern Tool LED's for $40 each and I am very pleased. You need to do a little jimmying to get them to fit into you buckets but they work. I think there is a post somewhere on here about them.

Mt. Evens west of Denver is the highest paved road in the US. It is over 14,000 feet high. On the way up you pass Lake Echo. A beautiful lake with snow covered mountain tops in the background and a souvenir shop right there at the lake. On the way up you pass through Mount Goliath Natural Area that have the weirdest looking trees. Also a very nice canyon ride that follows the Colorado River in the eastern Utah is highway 128. It goes from I-70 down to Arches which is another sight to see.

Ohhhhh the membership dues:doh:. Hey I don't even think about that. $12 is such a bargain to have access to all you wonderful people.

You left off a 1 in front of that $12. But I did also get a shifter seal and 3 copper washers . Now one down and a 2001 to go.

Well my MM is on the road again. Hurray!:banana::banana:A few weeks ago she barely made it home. I went an a charity ride and on the way home I could tell by the electrical problems I probably would not be able to crank it once I turned it off and sure enough I got home and she would not crank. I pulled the battery and had it tested and it tested good. I put it in the other bike and charged it and it cranked fine. I switched RR to see if it would charge regulate voltage to the other bike and it did (but unknowingly to me at the time only when it was cold). This MM now had the battery and the RR out of the other bike. I figured maybe a brake light got stuck on or something. Well I was backing the MM out of the garage and all of a sudden the clutch lever just lost all pressure. So the fine members here told me the slave unit went out. So I ordered the slave unit and put it back on yesterday. Hurray now all I needed to do was bleed the system. :bang head: and after some more fine members here told me that these bike are hard to get to bleed I finally got pressure in the clutch lever. So today I measured the voltage and took her for a test ride and everything worked! I checked the voltage when I got back and it was fine.:301:So I have one of the bikes back on the road again...

Alright a friend just stopped by with a good voltmeter. Checking the AC voltage with the RR off and the bike running and checking the 3 white wires as directed by Flyinfool we get about 25 volts at idle across all three white wires 1-2, 2-3, and 1-3. Revved it depends on how high you rev it but at the point we stopped it was about 55 volts. We did the DC continuity test between all 3 white wires and again they checked out. My voltmeter was not sensitive enough to spit out and accurate reading. We then did a DC test to ground and again the readings came back all the same. So now I'm back to square one and checking the connections.

Yes the 3 white wire ground test were done with the RR unplugged. When I tried to do the AC test with the RR unplugged I did not get any reading. I had the black lead in the black wire and I had the red lead in each of the white wires one at a time. With the engine running I got nothing but with the RR plugged in I got the results above.