2006 rectifier into a 1987?

[liptoss]

Wondering if anyone has bolted a newer rectifier into an older model Vmax?
I'm looking to install a 2006 into an 1987. It should work right?
If not, what solutions have anyone else come up with?
The 1987 OEM is burning up, but still working, but for how long right?

 

[thor_eyerdhal]

Bolting the newer model with fins is an usual upgrade

 

[liptoss]

That's what I thought, a rectifier is a rectifier is a rectifier

 

[Bill Seward]

Not unless you're comparing the different technologies used in these devices. Shunt type works, but generates heat, and shunts excess current to ground.. Mosfet switches the current more efficently, and stays cooler. However it still shunts to ground. This makes stator run hotter.. Could shorten its life. Series regulators actually switch off the stator, keeping it cooler.

 

[liptoss]

I knew there was more to this... which VBoost edition has the article on the rectifier stator?

 

[Traumahawk]

This is what Bill switched to, and seems to be doing well.

http://www.vmaxforum.net/showthread.php?t=40982

 

[Bill Seward]

Till the 70,000 mile old stator pooped..

 

[one2dmax]

I sell the newer versions for $75 including the longer bolts and the correct terminal connector to run the dedicated ground with the ground wire that comes on the regulator. $7 postage.

 

[liptoss]

So the newer OEM rectifier that has the additional black runs to ground under the seat?

 

[Bill Seward]

Yes, and run the red wire to the positive terminal. Put a 30A fuse inline if you run positive to battery directly.

 

[liptoss]

Thanks everyone! It's done.

 

[jdeitz1979]

Bill, was your stator due to poop cause of the age or cause of the rr ?


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[Bill Seward]

It was pretty burned on some coils. There were spots where the insulating varnish on the coil wires was gone. I think it just got too hot too often. Hopefully the Series type regulator installed now will help. If the original one went 60,000 miles, and the replacement went 70,000 more, maybe this one was will get 80,000! That would get me to 210,000.. Ya never know.

 

[Bill Seward]

Age, I think. 27 years of use, and 70,000 miles finally did it in. The original lasted 4 years and 60,000 miles. I have a Series type regulator installed, we'll see how this one lasts..

 

[blaxmax]

Age, I think. 27 years of use, and 70,000 miles finally did it in. The original lasted 4 years and 60,000 miles. I have a Series type regulator installed, we'll see how this one lasts..

Hows the other rectifier on the other bike holding up?

 

[Bill Seward]

So far so good. The Roadie toasted a stator at 50,000. 71 on it now, and works fine.