From: Sandy Thompson <ridinsandy@gmail.com>
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 5:14:33 AM
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] Regulator/rectafier
Hi Al,
I'm not an electrical engineer, so I can't say exactly what would happen if you tried that, but here's one problem: If one R/R developed a short in it, having another one in parallel would not save your butt. Why not simply have a spare with you that you could install if needed?
Or you could do what I did - get a used Suzuki R/R from Ebay and stop worrying about it :-)
Sandy Thompson
Hi People, last weekend was spent going over my bike with a multimeter try to find out why my dam bike was being more temprimental than usual. On performance; oil light on and LCD not working properly.
Eventually finding that there was a spike of solder which had worked though the insulation tape and touching the frame from the soldering joint which had been made three years ago by the garage who installed the DD headlight.
I was a mildly aggitated by this, but relieved that I had deceided to deal with this myself rather than being lazy and paying a garage to find the fault.
With all the ferring off and resoldering the cables and applying heat shrink sleaving my eyes caught the regulator and my memory went back to the time I broke down in the middle of France on my '06 bike tours,mid August whilst the whole of France was on Holiday and swearing that It would never happen again.......then a thought struck my mind, why not stick 2 rectafiers in parrallel? Would it work? If it did work what would be the benefits? would it be less likely for 2 not to break down at all? Is it a stupid idea? more importantly, has anyone ever tried it?
All replies would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards Al(98St2UK)
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