Stranded by your stator at 13,000 miles is not very encouraging.At 13,000 miles I fried a stator,left me stranded on I 90 for HOURS !!.A bigger alt would be AWSOME !!,let me know how that go's !!.:thumbup:
Greywolf- what gauge wire did you find you needed in order to eliminate the difference in reading between the voltmeter and the reading at the battery? I'm planning to mount a Datel voltmeter on a Richland Rick aux shelf on the triple, so I'll need a ~3 ft run of wire (I'm guessing) back to the PC-8 under the seat. Is 16 gauge heavy enough, or should I go with something heavier?The final step will be using a good hand held meter connected to the battery for a comparison. My old setup had a small difference I adjusted for in my head. Going to heavier wire brought a match.
How much current does that draw? Most hand-held meters are in the megohm range, meaning that 10 ohms in the wiring (grossly overstated) would still drop the sensed voltage something like 10E-5 volts, pretty much imperceptible. I'd think the bigger problems would be making connections that wouldn't build up resistance over time with only milliamps of current being passed. I suppose if the 'meter' uses LED's, you're probably talking several tenths of an amp, which is a different story. Be interesting to check the voltage drop from point to point in the wiring circuit to see where you're losing the voltage.I ran 10ga wire from the relay and battery to a fuse block in the fairing. The voltmeter to the fuse block uses maybe a foot of 18ga.