PODtronics
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room on the underside of the battery box? there's some airflow there
I think I am going with the first position. I believe have the wires hooked up right . If I do where does the brown/blue wire from the zener diode go? do I just not hook it up, or does it get hooked up along with the brown/blue from the rectifier wires to red wire from the podtronics unit? I have a new Warning light assimilator that is going on as well as a new main wire harness. I don't have to hook any wires up differently if all I am replacing is the rectifier and zener with the podtronics unit, Do I?
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Yes, the podrtronics replaces both the rectifier and zener diode, and is wired just how the diagram shows.
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My diagram from podtronics shows the black wire from the unit connecting to the 2 brown-blue wires that were on the
center pole of the rectifier.This is different than what his shows.The red wire from the unit going directly to ground
or to the red wires that were on the mounting stud of the rectifier which is a frame ground.The other posts say his is correct.
Why the difference???
Mike
center pole of the rectifier.This is different than what his shows.The red wire from the unit going directly to ground
or to the red wires that were on the mounting stud of the rectifier which is a frame ground.The other posts say his is correct.
Why the difference???
Mike
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Diagram is wrong. The red should go to red and the brown/blue is the hot negative lead so should go to the black from the Podtronics. On the Zener diode, the red is ground and the other ??? wire in your diagram goes to the large tab of the Zener.
Why would you want to use all those old wires? Clean up and simplify.
I wire my Podtronics directly. Yellow wires connecting directly to the stator wires, any order, the RED to the Negative terminal of the battery and the Black to the positive terminal of the battery.
Trace the redundancies back and connect or terminate as needed.
I wire my Podtronics directly. Yellow wires connecting directly to the stator wires, any order, the RED to the Negative terminal of the battery and the Black to the positive terminal of the battery.
Trace the redundancies back and connect or terminate as needed.
There seems to be some confusion with ground and polarity. Ground, by itself, does not have a polarity until it is connected to the battery. Regardless what polarity ground is assigned, any electrical device that is polarity sensitive needs to be connected positive to positive, negative to negative. Where it gets tricky is when the case of the device is also connected electrically to one of the inputs or outputs. A simple test with a ohm meter will tell you if any of the leads are connected to the case.
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Mine sits under the seat ,behind the crossbrace plate and is bolted to the fender. Had to file off a tiny bit of upside finnage to avoid seatpan contact. Works fine,out of sight ,leaves more battery box area open . As long as it gets some air circulation and is secure.
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I bolted my unit to the front of the battery box.
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I have fitted mine between the coils in the underside of the coil mounting bracket and put some rubber washers as used on the petrol tanks between it and the bracket to isolate it from vibrations. I have also used some foam to protectthe wires from rubbing. The condensers which would be there on a standard bike have been removed.
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