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Hey everyone i have a 1989 fzr 600, i love the bike when i first bought it, it was running fine ( to what i could tell)
I even drove it back home witch was a 2 hour drive.
I get home and i start messing with it getting use to the bike in the drive way. Then all of a sudden my key switch didn't work.

know my "key switch" was just a switch connecting the 3 wires that go in to the key ingestion (black blue and brown)
the black on bring the power from the battery to the blue and brown wire witch runs the power to all the major and no major stuff.

so it bypass the key and it works fine know it was just loose wiring...

so im driving it around my town and after about 45 mins of driving it just quite on me for no reason.. dimmed lights and dimmed 'N' green light and when i tryed to turn it over it just didnt have the power to do it

so i have my gf come and we "jump" slash charge the battery and i head home almost making it all the way.. i just ened up pushing it to my house

today i went to a battery place bought a new one installed it the bike started up all fine just like new when for about an 2 hours maybe little more and heading home the bike just quite..

so this leads me to belive that it the stator not charging the batter as im going..
then i was also wondering i connected a hot wire right to my "key switch" so maybe that draining my power bc its also bypassing the stator in this diagram
http://www.saltmine.org.uk/fzr/fzrwiring.gif

if you guys need more info or picture of how i have ever thing wired let me know.. the old + cable is still attached to the batter so the stator and vr are still connect to the batter so idk.

thank for you help guys

Well, I'd bet (especially being an 89' model) that your Regulator Rectifier is no longer working properly... It's pretty common.

-If you own a Multi-meter first check to see how many volts the Battery has with the bike off; it should be between 12-13volts.

-Then if you can get the bike to run again: check the battery while running. It should be around 14volts. If it is less than 14, it is either your R/R, Stator, or some horrible short or broken wire. BUT, i still place my initial bet on Regulator Rectifier

Do you think it has anything to do with the hot wire right from
The battery to the 2 ignition wires? And it's not attached to the reg hot wire?

Anything that runs from your battery to something else that doesn't go through the switch will draw down your battery. The ignition coil driver transistors CAN leak a little, and any other fault in the wiring (that sounds like it has been utterly butchered anyway) will leak like a sieve.

Ok thanks for some advice.

I know leaving the batter connected to anything with no switch will drain the battery

I Belive I found my issue. That Maine fuse (30 green) is gone. That's the one that connects
The batter to
The stator. So that probly my issuse tu
Guy. I'll let you all know if that was this problem

OK so i realized that the main fuse right off the battery was blown. and me connecting a hot wire from the batter right to the "key switch" would run the bike but since the maine fuse was gone there was 0 power going to the stator and vr so my bike wouldn't charge

but thanks for all you help guys

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