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Author Message   Pwillikers Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 09:51 am:        Hey, I had a thought. I have over 10K on my warranty replaced stator, VR and harness relay. I ride with one vigilant eyeball on the voltage readout anticipating the inevitable. I carry a spare relay and homemade jumper cables under the pillion, both of which I wish I had been carrying in the past. I suggest you consider doing the same. The way the harness relay works is that it drops one leg, the same leg every time, and thereby reduces heat in the stator. With this solution, the same stator circuit is baking all the time and the other two get a break. What if every 10K miles or so I rotated the stator wires in the harness connector so it drops the other legs in succession? This would alternate the constant load through the three stator circuits thereby, theoretically at least, extending stator life by three, no?   Baf Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 09:00 pm:        Or just get an EBR rotor and ditch the harness hack and fix the problem.   Pwillikers Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 09:56 pm:        I just swapped two of the three yellow stator wire pins (positions 1 and 2) in both the harness connectors. I can think of no empirical indicator to confirm that it will make any difference. I guess I'll just see if it lasts.   Kevmean Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 05:46 pm:        If you swapped the pins in BOTH of the connectors you will have reconnected them the same as you started out   Pwillikers Posted on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 11:46 pm:        Kevmean, I disagree. Explain your logic please.   Kevmean Posted on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 02:16 pm:        If you swap number 1 and number 2 in Both connectors then number 1 remains connected to number 1 and number 2 to number 2 ...swap them in one side of the connector and then number 1 is connected to number2 and viceversa . so if number 1 was the leg still in use then after the swap it would be number 2   Pwillikers Posted on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 06:05 pm:        I don't really follow you. Here's what I did. You can see that, in Case C, after the pin swap, the harness relay is switching a different stator leg.   Parsonsshane Posted on Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - 01:51 am:        What he is mentioning is unless you do it as you have listed above, it wont work. For example: 1:1 2:2 3:3 switches to: 2:2 3:3 1:1 By his example all he is saying is if you switch the wires on both the male and female side of the harness you are defeating the purpose all together.

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