I've said it before, and I may certainly be guilty of this - the # of worries about your bike is directly related to the # of gauges, but...

My charging gauge while riding is very close to 16 - sounds high to me - is it?

 

mine is up there to but I put a volt meter on the bat and its ok , the gauge in the fairing may be reading high on yours to , check it at the bat with a gauge

 

Agreed. The gauges are notoriously inaccurate. Check the battery terminals with a multi-meter. It should be anywhere from 13.5-14.8V or so.

 

Mine shows just shy of 16v as well, but a DVOM check at the battery checks out OK. There's a silent campaign for some regulator issues on the 2012 models, so if you're still concerned take her to the dealer and have it checked.

 

voltage from the charging system over 14.8 will burn up a battery is short time- so the expense to repair is double.

check the charging at the battery terminals with a known accurate meter- at rpms above 3000.

mike

 

Mine shows just under 16v and its a 2008 on the original battery.

 

if measuring at the battery- then you are running out of spec.


Mike

 

Not to be nasty, but there have been other threads on this in the past.....the small gauges the Moco uses are not accurate. My bike runs around 16V too, since it was new. Dealer tech told me exactly what I've read here.....they're inaccurate. They checked it for me and gave me a service report (to protect me) that everything was fine.

 

Ok, thanks folks. I'm aware of the regulator program, I'll check it at the battery tomorrow.

 

As a single datapoint I just bought an Ultra a month ago (picture below). When the service manager gave me the orientation on the bike he said not to pay too much attention to the gauges because they weren't too accurate. Interesting thing to say about a new bike I thought but seems to be the truth.