![]() ![]() When rectifiers start to fail, usually when you start to increase rpm's (1500-2500)they let higher voltage to pass into electrical system and after that they drop the voltage.that's why in highway drive you didn't have any problem and the charger failed when you started low speed gravel road drive.Īlso if AC voltage passes through the rectifier any electronic device running with DC input would burn. That's from voltage spikes or overvoltage from your electrical system usually happens at low rpm when the rectifier starts to regulate the output voltage. That's not overcurrent,it would burn the fuse (inside the charger or the outside you install) As I say, the first day it worked fine for 5 hours riding down the highway at 65-70mph, everything after that was a disaster.Īny ideas? Ideas how to solve this? Worrying about your primary means of navigation failing on you in the middle of nowhere is NOT a fun thing to have weighing on your mind. There is a little tube fuse inside them and it was not even burnt out. I even took apart one of the chargers heads to try to look for signs of burning out or damage. ![]() Could it have been the vibrations from off road riding that were breaking the chargers? Was it some kind of current variation from doing low rpm lots of throttle variation riding off-road that was burning them out? I'm at a loss. Never once did I ride in the rain with a charger plugged in. I finally resorted to leaving the charger unplugged except when I stopped and shut the bike off for fuel or food or overnight, that's the only way I could keep my phone charged and not keep burning out chargers. I then resorted to getting a couple of the stubby little cig lighter to USB chargers, with a plug in USB cable. I bought a new charger of the same style and it broke that day also. The next days travel was all off road and slow gravel road travel. Somewhere during the later part of the day the charger stopped working. The end of the day was off road trail and slower gravel road travel. Most of the riding that day was highway travel with consistant, high rpm's. ![]() For most of the first day it functioned fine keeping the phone charged. What happened - I was using a phone charger that plugged directly into the cig lighter. What I did - simple, wired plug directly to battery, with 5amp fuse in line. I've done this before on other bikes with no trouble, but for some reason I used this set up on the DRZ this summer on a 4 day dual sport ride and through the course of it I went through about 3 phone charger configurations, they kept burning out/breaking on me! I wired in a 12v cig lighter plug onto my 06 DRZ400 for the express purpose of running my phone as a gps unit. ![]()
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