Erratic voltage

motorson said:

Did you ride the bike in the rain? Do you have resistor wires or plugs or sparkplug caps? I rode in the rain with a Lucas Rita with no resistor components in at all in my spark plug leads, caps or plugs. The upshot was that the system over charged for about 1000 miles. The regulator in question was a podtronics. The battery was AGM. The voltage measuring device was and is a small unit that goes flashing red when overcharging. In the end, my Lucas Rita was fried. I replaced it with a Boyer but could not get the timing to settle into a steady state. To solve that problem I sent the Boyer to Walridge and had it tested. It was fine. The Podtronics regulator was letting the voltage go all over the place and Boyers are sensitive to that.

The theory I am going with is that RF (radio frequency) from my spark plug wires fried the Podtronics regulator which in turn allowed overcharging of the battery/electrical system which took out the Lucas Rita ignition module. The whole problem was then discovered by noticing that a Boyer ignition (which later tested to be good) could not be timed properly. Resistor wires or plugs or sparkplug caps would probably have prevented this series of events.

Dan.

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