Hi everybody,
I'm reaching out for a little bit of help here. My battery volts at idle is reading 14.8-14.82 with low beam on my headlight. at a good solid rev and raise in the rpms it jumps to 14.90 but nothing more. Which I think is a good thing its not more than 15v right?

With my high beam on it fluctuates between 13.99-14.52-14.76 on idle.
A little bit of background info. I used my buddies battery for this as I'm waiting for my antigravity battery to arrive. I've installed a new regulator and stator. The battery volts read 12.38 before any initial start so it has a good charge and he hasn't had any problems with his soft tail deuce. I'm only running a headlight low/high beam and a tail light.

What worries me is in the info for my antigravity battery it states it shouldn't reach more than 14.8 volts or I could damage the battery. I don't want to damage it.

Do these readings seem normal??

 

normal ,, no worries

 

Not to me, I would not like my charging system exceed 14.4 V. You may want double check your tester, it may give false reading. And FYI, all SI units based on inventors name are uppercase. Volt is named after Alessandro Volta, thus V stands for volt or volts (there is no plural in SI), lowercase v stands for velocity.

 

A warm engine idle is around 900-1100 RPM. Harleys don't charge at idle. Only when moving and blipping at stop signs and red lights. (that last part was a joke).
I agree with Zipper, try a different digital multimeter.

 

Your battery voltage with bike off no load is 12.38? That's way too low. If you can go to your car/truck and see what the reading is to see if meter is good or not. Ohm out the leads together and you should read 0. If it reads more than 1 Ohm then your leads are bad.

 

Thanks everybody for the responses to my thread. Tomorrow I will borrow a much better tester from a buddy. Also I will take the readings off my brand new batter when it arrives. I'll let you all know the results. Thanks!

 

Goo goo g' joob!!

['seemed appropriate considering your name, sorry, LOL]

=8^)

 

Hahaha hell yeah brotha!