Regulator/over-voltage issue

Good day,

Here's a real dinger of a problem I've been having. Look all over the forums for an answer but found nothing. I have a 1999 honda VFR 800 with some electrical issues. When I bought it my battery went dead so I replaced it with a Mosfet regulator rectifier MOSFET REGULATOR RECTIFIER back in Oct. 2012. 3 weeks ago my 3 yellow wires from the stator fried the connector to that RR. Those 3 yellow wires always were hot and it held a charge of 13v. at idle and would drop to 12.3 when rev'd to 5k. Well after the wires fried I sent it back to them for a replacement and got the new one in. I installed it today and now when rev'd to 5k it has an overvoltage of 18.0v and at idle 14.0v. I've tightened and cleaned the grounds that I could find. Are there any grounds I should be specifically looking at? That orange ground connector, could that be an issue? Thanks for any help.

Oct. 2012- new regulator 13.0v steady idle no more at 5k
July 2013- 3 yellow stator wires fried connector to regulator (made me hitch a ride home)
Aug-2013- new RR now 18.0 v when rev'd to 5k and 14.0v at idle

Tests:
battery charging line checked out (read battery voltage)
charging coil line all read .5 ohms
ground line had continuity to ground
the yellow wires don't run as hot now but have continuity between them I.e. (yellow to yellow) But not continuity to ground (yellow to ground)

 

Regulator is obviously not working should max out at about 14.5 volts

 

^^^^See Mello's post above.

Curious if you are buying from a "reputable" company, or going something like the e-bay route? You don't have to mention names. Just interesting about having 2 bad R/R.

 

Yeah it's weird, they say they test their RR before they go out. I just have been trying to avoid having to cut open the wire harness. The Orange ground box, should I just wire all those up together better see if that fixes the problem? I went through post #9, going to go to autozone today but the rest looked ok.

 

checked the battery, came back good. The output from the RR was 30volts if i took the reading right from the wiring before it enters the harness. I'm calling the company tomorrow morning about it.

 

Absolutely, first thing I checked. This last attempt was sort of just a who knows what I might find thing. I'm also an aircraft mechanic (just so yall know my background a bit). I'm just striking out with the normal causes and it seemed weird that the brand new RR would be bad, but that's what it's looking like.

 

i agree, is $100 to cheap for a rr tho?

 

30 volts A/C or D/C

 

Thanks, I called the company they're having me send it back to them for testing, we will see what happens. He thinks there is a short somewhere in the system that is causing that sort of a draw. He said most common place was up in the steering column area, any recommendations on where to start a snipe hunt? If it doesn't work out I'll go to the one you recommend mellow dude. I appreciate the help thus far.

 

30 volts D/C it was before the battery but after the RR

 

I just bought a new r/r from honda for 165.00 and then had to spend 30. to overnight it cause I didnt want to wait.

 

30 volts D/C I wonder what else has been fried

 

does that mean that your sixth gen had the same issues with the breakdown of the reg/rect?

 

I agree with the advice of buying from Roadstercycle.com. Got mine from them over a year ago and has been reliable ever since.

 

Ok I got the new Mosfet R/R plugged in and it's only giving me a charge of 13.3 at idle and goes down to 12.9 at 5k rpm. Also those 3 yellow wires from the stator to the RR connector are getting hot like they did before they melted together. Is my stator bad? What tests should I follow with. Thanks for the help