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Hi All, Just a short tale of woe. Matt had his first serious breakdown last week. Bike stalled at roundabout and he lost all electrics - nothing. Got the bike recovered and did some web browsing. The ignition fuse had blown so did a few checks and here's the result -

Regulator nacked
which fried the battery and the IC Igniter
this in turn has blown several bulbs but no other fuses
Got a used IC Igniter for £60 (new would have been £360 ) and a new battery and a new regulator

Bike runs fine now but the tacho is shagged - need to look inside the clocks but i don't know enough about the electrical side of things to know whether it will be a new tacho or even where the signal comes from that drives the needle?

Any ideas

norraclue mate but hope you can get it all fixed for him - sturdy machines those ER's generally I had a great fondness for mine (a bike I wish I'd been allowed to keep)

DavShill wrote:Hi All, Just a short tale of woe. Matt had his first serious breakdown last week. Bike stalled at roundabout and he lost all electrics - nothing. Got the bike recovered and did some web browsing. The ignition fuse had blown so did a few checks and here's the result -

Regulator nacked
which fried the battery and the IC Igniter
this in turn has blown several bulbs but no other fuses
Got a used IC Igniter for £60 (new would have been £360 ) and a new battery and a new regulator

Bike runs fine now but the tacho is shagged - need to look inside the clocks but i don't know enough about the electrical side of things to know whether it will be a new tacho or even where the signal comes from that drives the needle?

Any ideas

Damn bad luck Dave.
Sounds like some poorly specified protection on some of those modules.
Bit of a job to advise on the tacho. Might be possible to reverse-engineer enough to sort it out if it were in front of me .... but a very good chance that wouldn't be easy (or possible). Just depends on how they've implemented it. You may be lucky and see some charred components - but even if you do, it may not be possible to identify exactly what they are to replace them.
Sorry to not sound too hopeful - as I say, may be possible but without more info and looking at it the chances are low.

Thanks Guys. Here's the update.

New Rectifier, new battery and 2nd hand Cdi (Partfinder really came up trumps) all up and running. Blown headlight, stop/tail and indicators all replaced. Road tested and all is well.

Took the tacho to bits last night and looks like two of the main diodes have sizzled. Anyway running fine without it and we'll source a 2nd hand tacho unit...hope Partfinder comes up trumps again.

On the positive side I now know a lot more about the electrics than I did before and Matt's back on the road.

Cheers.

have you tried ebay for parts


Eddie

try this for starters


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kawasaki-ER-5-ER5 ... dZViewItem


Eddie