Hi
Travelling home last Sat from west Wales, and after a couple of hours in that terrible rain, the charge indicator on my 2012 DL650 L2 (with 58k miles on the clock) flickered red, away from its usual pulsing green.
Thinking I was seeing things, I kept a very close eye on it, and sure enough it went pulsing red..it was discharging!
Now I was running my heated vest, as I was getting cold with the rain, so I switched it off, and the LED went back to its green state. Strange I thought.
I gave it 20 minutes as I was starting to shiver, and switched the vest back on again...the LED stayed green for about 10 minutes and then went to red.
Switched off the vest and pulled over in a layby, and pulled both front headlamp connectors to save power.
I still had a least 4 hours riding to get home, so was a little concerned, especially in that rain.
But I made it home with the heated vest running at a lowish setting, and the rain stopped about 10 miles from my front door!!!
Today I have been testing the stator and first checked continuity between terminals and all three were 0.4 ohms.
Then individually to ground/earth and all three read infinity.
Now the load test, which showed an excess of 68vac on two, but the third only got as far as 3vac, all @ 5k revs.
So it looks as though I have a defective stator.
Besides the standard item from Suzuki, are there any alternatives?
All the best.
Crazyhorse