Common Technical Issues: HONDA CBX1000 / Prolink

BRAND: HONDA
MODEL: CBX1000 / Prolink
YEARS: 79-82
CATEGORY: MOTORCYCLE

TECHNICAL ISSUE DETAILS
The Honda CBX1000 six-cylinders have an excited field rotor alternator system not that different from what you see in a modern car. The system consists of a field rotor with brushes, a stator and a regulator/rectifier unit that rectifies the AC output coming from the stator. When the charging voltage is too high the regulator turns off the field rotor, making the charging drop in which case the regulation circuit turns the field rotor back on. This is an ongoing process. No battery charging is typically caused by: 1) Bad rotor (rotor shorting out). Age, heat and vibration are all causes for this failure. The rotor should have a resistance between 4.2-5.0 Ohms between the slip rings. A shorted rotor winding will show a resistance between 0.3-2.5 Ohms. 2) Bad regulator/rectifier. Often caused by a bad rotor. When the rotor fails it draws too much current for the regulation circuit to supply, causing the regulator/rectifier to fail. The OEM typically dies alongside the rotor. Our ESR210 replacement has a thermal overload circuit that prevents the regulation circuit from failure when the rotor shorts out. 3) Stator failure. Not as common, but it does happen mainly because of the age of the OEM units in these bikes. 4) Bad connections. As in any bike this age, bad connections are often to blame for electrical problems of all kinds. Clean every connection in the system one by one to ensure no connectivity headaches.

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS VEHICLE
See products available for the HONDA CBX1000 / Prolink, 79-82 MOTORCYCLE.

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