Melted Stator wire Connector By wildbill84 (Read 907 times)

[wildbill84]

There are 3 yellow wires that come from my stator, at the first connector its all melted real bad. I cut the wires from the plug then twisted them together and wrapped with elec. tape really good. My readings were 17v, almost 17v, and about 8v. they kept fluctuating.
I plugged in my taillights and they were really dim. After unplugging both connectors from the regulator and hooking them back up my taillights were bright again. Yellow wires got really hot when i unhooked them, so i hooked them back up, So with all the wires still hooked to the regulator this is my readings.

Yellow Side
6.2-6.4
1.8-2.1
5.44

Other side (going to power everything)
10.6
12.2
-.17 to -.20 or so

Suddenly now my taillights are full brightness.

With these whacked readings do you think I need a regulator or stator?

[tvnacman]

Welcome to this fourm!!!!!!!!!!

Have you taken the voltage readings not connected to the stator as I asked you ? The readings are very important , it will tell us if your stator is good or not .

John

[scooterelements]

same thing happened to mine about a week ago mine is a 6 pole stator tho. i think its because i have been using HIDS. I ended up cutting the plug and just connecting the wires together but yea get yourself some voltage readings

[JR]

Wildbill here is the best 3-phase (what you have) test around for these scooters:

thescooterprofessor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=250e&action=display&thread=152

I skip the ohm reading part on the first and go right to the AC voltage test. Disconnect the stator wires and as it says rev the engine up to at leat 5k RPM. Test each set of yellow wires from yellow to yellow as in

Wire 1 to 2
Wire 1 to 3
Wire 2 to 3

If the voltage is not extremely close to being equal and in the 60Vac range then the stator is toast.

With these whacked readings do you think I need a regulator or stator?

Could be both. Three things mainly cause a melt down like this;

Bad connections
Too much current or amp pull from the system
A short in the wiring.

BTW this is a 18 pole stator.

Let us know what you find and we're here to help.

JR

[wildbill84]

Thanks, I've been really busy. I will try and get back on it mon. or tues., Thanks again.