[Ducati] 500SL electrical problem

[Frank Pope]

thanks Rich (and others who contributed). I've got the problem fixed  
tonight, so all is well again and I'm very happy about that.

I connected the battery up wrong(!), and that's pretty embarassing at  
my age, however all is not as straightforward as it seems. The  
initial connection was 2 wires on the -ve and 3 on the +ve. My  
mistake was not marking the cables as I disconnected them, thinking  
it would only be an afternoon charging the battery and I'd remember.  
It actually became a week by the time I found the battery was stuffed  
and sourced a new one. By then, I just went off the colour coding on  
the wires to reconnect. Unfortunately, the main active red wire to  
the fuse box was covered in a thick black(!) plastic sleeve. So,  
guess where I connected it.

1 regulator, 4 days, and more than a few beers later I found the  
problem by unhooking the whole front end to test the current to the  
ignition switch and work my way back. Very much the long way I know,  
but I'm no electrician and all I had was the wiring diagram I found  
on the web and a volt meter. More than a few lessons there for me I  
guess. For the offending cable, I've now covered about 7cm of the  
black sheath with red insulation tape.

On the upside, I fixed it myself, got to know a lot more about the  
bike, I'll now be able to properly secure a loose ignition switch and  
fix the headlight glass, and re-do the flaking paint on the dash.

cheers all,
Frank
Canberra




. As dumb as that may sound


On 01/02/2007, at 8:35 AM, Rich Roberts wrote:

12.45 is still low, fully charged should be high 12s
to low 13s. Suspect connections somewhere. Rich
--- Frank Pope <fpope at grapevine.com.au> wrote:

> hi all,
> thanks to those who answered my previous query about
> getting a
> regulator for my 500SL Pantah.  I've since sourced a
> new one via
> Electrex and put it on the bike. However now, with a
> fully charged
> battery (reading 12.45v), I'm getting no current to
> the dash lights
> at all. I'm also pretty close to giving up on this
> particular lesson
> and taking it to the local mechanic to get
> sorted/take my medicine.
>
> History of this problem is that I had to get a new
> battery and, in
> too much of a hurry I hooked up the regulator wrong
> and likely killed
> it (other leads to the battery were hooked up
> correctly. What I don't
> know now is whether I've damaged anything else.
>
> Any thoughts?
> cheers
> Frank
>
>
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