Charging system not charging on 1963 305 dream

caldreamin · Post by **caldreamin** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:36 pm

My lights aren't getting brighter when I goose the throttle and the battery doesn't have the juice to fire the electric starter any more, the battery is new, I put a meter on the battery terminals with bike running and showed 10.5 on the meter, reving the bike did not increase the reading on the meter, can anybody tell me how to troubleshoot the charging system, weather its the rectifier or stater or something else, hopefully its not something serious or expensive, also will the bike shut down if the battery gets to low while riding .....putting me to walking or will it run fine as long as there is a little juice in there? Thanx!! Dave

joeweir1 · Post by **joeweir1** » Sun May 17, 2009 3:13 pm

Did you read any old posts?There are some containing the info you need.Joe

caldreamin · Post by **caldreamin** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:07 pm

yep, I looked around first but didn't find it

caldreamin · Post by **caldreamin** » Tue May 19, 2009 11:05 am

Can someone point me in the direction of the charging system troubleshooting thread, I am not finding it, Thanx!!

davomoto · Post by **davomoto** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:21 pm

Click on search, type in charging system, and you will come up with three pages of posts.

davomoto

caldreamin · Post by **caldreamin** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:07 pm

Thanx Dave, I Searched that and found it looks like the best way to go would be to get the radio shack Rectifier and heat sink?? or is there a good place to get a new stock one?? mine is black and says Yuasa,... July... 63

davomoto · Post by **davomoto** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:02 pm

retrobikes sells a solid state one that looks like origional. here's a link to site. Great people!

davomoto

http://www.olypen.com/retro/