Excellent!
Glad it worked out well.
Mark
On May 5, 2012, at 11:52 AM, "Ian Ellison" <ian@ianellison.org.uk> wrote:
> So often it helps to have someone else throw some clarity at a problem.
>
> I followed Mark's advice and checked voltages at every junction from battery
> through solenoid and beyond. Battery is a little low but showed 12.28V; all
> the way through the solenoid on both trigger and supply circuits I got over
> 12.2V. Until I got to the starter terminal where I got 0.2V!
>
> Whipped the cable off again and it showed 0.0 Ohms. Until I gave it a little
> twist and it showed 4.5 Ohms. Remounted it and gave it a viscious twist and
> the starter kicked when I hit the button. Popped into CIrencester and
> bought a new HD cable and all is now good; it starts reliably.
>
> The old cable had an internal break and must have had just enough contact to
> show no resistance on the meter but when faced with a couple of hundred amps
> just threw up its hands. Apart from being pretty weedy it looked fine
> externally.
>
> Now I just have to test the reg/rec and stator and see where the charging
> fault (which I was expecting!) is...
>
> Thanks to all who have offered advice, and especially Mark!
>
> IanE
>
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