To be honest I'm just clutching at straws now. I have replaced the filter with a new one from Ducati. Gonna butcher the old one and see how bad it is. I measured the battery voltage this morning, it read 12.55 volts, acceptable as far as I know for a battery 12 hours rested. I started the bike and allowed to idle @ 1200rpm. The meter read 14 volts. Now here is the problem as the revs rise the voltage across the battery drops to just over 12 V @ 6K. This is not right. I also have an R1. To get a comparason I checked it and got 14v at idle rising to almost 15 @ 5k rpm. To me this is how the ducati should act with a new RR, generator and battery. The only other component is the flywheel. Im not well briefed on magnetism but is it possible that a potentially 13 year old flywheel could have lost some magnetic power. As mentioned it a previous post I did check the unregulated voltage after installing the new generator and only got 95VAC where I should be reading at least 140VAC. Since there are only 2 components (generator and flywheel) interacting to produce the unregulated voltage, is it reasonable to suspect the flywheel is duff? Anyone with any insight please let me know. Im 400 quid out of pocket so far and still none the better for it. |