Re: 1982 Honda CB 650 -- Electrical / Charging problems (as usual)

http://www.electrosport.com/Images/img.cb750rotor.jpg
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I really doubt that you sanded the enamel insulation off the stator
coils. That would be a very expensive less in what not to do.
Alternator stators have only enamel for insulation, if you pierce the
enamel, the coils short out to each other.
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No, I polished that thing a little bit... and the little rectangles
inside the stator:
http://jhodson.net/pics/0-honda-cb750k6/justparts/K6-stator1w.jpg
Not the actual coils themselves, i'm not completely retarded :)
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I think you may be talking about slip rings on the alternator rotor?
Does that alternator have carbon brushes? When brushes wear out and get
short, there isn't enough spring pressure to push the brushes against
the slip rings hard enough to make good contact. So there is high
resistance and the excitation current to the rotating electromagnatic
field is reduced.
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Are the carbon brushes you speak of two prongs that stuck out behind
the coils that touch the roter? Because I dont know how to see if they
are long enough or not? How do i check that?

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