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Thanks, Graham! I've been so busy, the bike has been on a back burner. I'll definitely do that, though.

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Ed called me a week or so ago, and we had a lovely conversation! It was so good to hear from him. I promised I'd stop into the forum and say hi everyone else, and here I am! I'm a bit later than I promised, but I've been very, very busy.

The news? The Old Girl sits under a cover in my garage ...

I borrowed an RMS VOM and measured voltage at the battery and the output of the Podtronics. 12.6 VDC, rising to 12.7 VDC at 4000 RPM. I think it works!

I wonder if this qualifies as a "DOH!"? Item Number 10 on the Podtronics instructions says "Note for techies. If you try to measure the output of the Podtronics it will read around 11 Volts. This is because the output is pulsing DC and your meter will read average and not peak."

I need to put an ...

Graham, I DO have to tie that pink wire to one of the other legs from the alternator! I haven't done that yet.

To answer your question about the battery dying? It does, after an hour or so, the battery is too low to start the bike.

I wish you could come and cast eyes on this thing for me, too ...

Graham, I have an entirely different alternator in the bike. I replaced the rotor with a high magnetism rotor and the stator with a pristine piece I found on eBay. The voltage readings are identical to what I saw with the original rotor and stator assembly. That causes me to think that either the ...