• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

All 2st AC to DC for $9. It works!

Eaglefreek another member on here by the name of kzoo had issues with ignition at higher rpm when the earth was connected and that it was resolved by wiring it the same way I did. They are separate coils on my bike though so I would think the lighting coil would have nothing to do with the ignition.
 
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Eaglefreek said:
Al, I hope you don't mind I'm going to butt into this thread since I have a question regarding this also. Spoonshark, I used a Radio Shack full wave bridge rectifier to convert from AC to DC. I didn't remove the earth from the stator. Instead on the rectifier, I hooked the yellow wire from the stator to the one AC pin and then the other ac pin to frame ground. I then ran the 12+ DC from the rectifier to the lights and the ground pin directly to the lights without connecting those grounds to the frame. Could this have burnt my stator out and cause a no spark issue?
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More the merrier mate. :thumbsup:
 
When looking online for connection/wiring dia's on these rec/reg's it looks to be correct but unusual that I'm getting the higher voltages unless there is an issue with the rec/reg. They are only a cheap Chinese unit of the pit bikes etc. The voltage was stable prior to the stator mod though. I checked the LED headlight globe on a 12V battery and seems to be working ok. Surprising enough the first/cheap LED headlight globe is brighter than the latter one unless it has been damaged.

Unless Spoonshark can point out anything out of place with my wiring, I'll try another rec/reg.
 
Guys, sorry for the back and forth with the posting but our accounts haven't been fully approved as yet so that's why posts are all over the place.

Spoonshark, you won't have an edit feature till your account has been fully approved! :excuseme:

I'll try a new/different rec/reg and yes my meter is just a cheapie but it did read correct prior to the mod on the earth.
 
The only thing I can think of is polarity like I said. But that 30V AC sounds a bit suss. I was looking at my service manual and it says my stator outputs 110W. I wonder whether the pit pike Reg can handle that. I have no idea what mine can handle. Its a Chinese unit too but for a honda sports bike. I was looking on the trailtech website and theirs do 150W also they even mentioned you need a floating earth stator.
 
Yeah I have since wondered if the $9 unit has the capacity to now carry the extra. I'll search and purchase a better unit and give that a try. It can't be anything too major a problem.

Specs aren't avail for these units online but I ordered one from a larger capacity bike etc and see how that goes.
 
I have a new/different rec/reg here I'll try but I don't now when I'll get a chance as I'm off camping at the end of the week. Maybe I might be able to sneak it in before I go. Also I will try a different wiring setup as online suggests different diagrams for these. :excuseme: I'll study them and see if I can find any reason good or bad for the differences.

Al.
 
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