What should the voltage be on a virago Charger?
If you suspect a charging problem your first move should be to grab your trusty multimeter and take a voltage reading across your battery terminals with the engine running. The manual will tell you should see 14.3-15.3 volts at 2000+ rpm. (14.5 for earlier models).
What does the regulator do on a virago?
But our battery and electrical components don’t need all this current and voltage all the time, and so a circuit comes into play called the regulator . In Viragos, this circuit and its components reside in the same “box” as the rectifier. It’s main purpose is to keep the battery from overcharging.
What kind of battery does a Yamaha Virago use?
When we talk about Virago batteries, we are talking strictly about Starter batteries. When the engine is running, we have a charging system working in the bike which is tied into the Virago battery circuit and also generates current to run the lights, etc.
Do you have to deeply discharge a virago battery?
Then they like to sit back at (or close to) full charge, and let your generating system do the work of running you lights, ignition, etc. Starter batteries do not like to be deeply discharged. The other common type of battery is the “deep cycle” battery.
If you suspect a charging problem your first move should be to grab your trusty multimeter and take a voltage reading across your battery terminals with the engine running. The manual will tell you should see 14.3-15.3 volts at 2000+ rpm. (14.5 for earlier models).
But our battery and electrical components don’t need all this current and voltage all the time, and so a circuit comes into play called the regulator . In Viragos, this circuit and its components reside in the same “box” as the rectifier. It’s main purpose is to keep the battery from overcharging.
When we talk about Virago batteries, we are talking strictly about Starter batteries. When the engine is running, we have a charging system working in the bike which is tied into the Virago battery circuit and also generates current to run the lights, etc.
Then they like to sit back at (or close to) full charge, and let your generating system do the work of running you lights, ignition, etc. Starter batteries do not like to be deeply discharged. The other common type of battery is the “deep cycle” battery.