99 DS Charging Problem

[kmfl98]

Having an issue, thought i'd see if anyone here has had a similar problem before I buy a new regulator. Cart runs and is at battery voltage. I do "the test" for the regulator/generator by taking top (yellow) wire off, grounding it and checking voltage. It seems to be all over the place when I do that. I reconnect yellow, and it's somehow fixed. Charges 14.8 or so for a while. Then next day or whenever I run it again, back to battery voltage. Seems like a bad connection or something but can't find any. It's like the test somehow resets the regulator for a while. Any idea's? Or just buy a new regulator and take a chance? Thanks for any input!

[kmfl98]

Now I can't get it to charge at all... starting to thing starter/generator.

[Jimmie]

You should have disconnected the yellow wire to the starter generator. Run a jumper wire from that terminal on the starter generator to ground. Run the engine up to speed for just a moment and see what voltage you read at the battery during that moment it's running. If it's still the under 12 volts it's a generator issue. If it goes high, over 15 volts, then it's a voltage regulator issue.

[kmfl98]

Ya after re-reading the process, I screwed up. Probably fried the VR by grounding the yellow wire. I have one on order...

[Jimmie]

Don't feel bad , you're not the first one to do that