Voltage Regulator

Posted by cb750 on Aug 11, 2008; 4:33am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/Voltage-Regulator-tp457895.html

My '75 isn't charging.  When it's under load I'm only getting about 12.4 volts across it so I'm starting to investigate where the problem might be. The bike left me stranded a couple weeks ago, I was able to kick start it and get home which was cool. But my old Chiltons manual tells me in order to check the alternator output I need an ohmmeter and a voltage meter and you connect them in series to the positive side of the battery and this will tell what the alternator looks like...well no a  days you buy these digital multi purpose meters so I don't know how to hook that up to the battery and check alternator out put??? Any ideas woould be great. Plus I discovered there are actually points in the regultor that might need to be re-gapped....I tried it but not sure I got it right..is there any test using the multimeter to check the regultaor?