18,000 on a 58 white bike with no probs...fingers crossed

Ditto


Maybe the use of sealant and clamping the male and female halves of the connectors together with cable ties has contributed.

This weekend I connected a KTM rectifier directly to the loom. Wires of the old one were completely melted together. So this is my 3rd one, but no without a connector which is the cause of this problem.

If I remember correctly my first Ten was the first to have this problem and had a new loom fitted. As Stoic mentions the terminals are just too fragile to take the load, have a look at the reg rec on an 'R' or 'X' models, they are twice as big.
I now have the '09 model (still Khaki) and took Stoics advice and got a Fazer rectifier as my bike was starting to have the symptoms which I know only too well now.
Check out my pics on an earlier thread as I remounted the reg under the headstock as the loomm is quite long now.
The symptoms that I mention are that the digital part of the dash goes off, the bike still runs OK, then the rev counter goes off, bike starts to run erratically, THEN the orange light comes on, bikes dies.
Basically if you see the dash go off, stop the bike immediately and dive into that stupid connector, fiddle with it or if you havew the tools take apart and check, clean terminals if you can. assemble and you will find that there is still enough in the battery to restart.................and YES I have done this, that is why I chopped off the offending connector and hard wired a Fazer reg.
Even If I hadn't done this I would carry a replacement reg (cheap @�20) and a cheap plastic connector block, because other than running out of fuel or breaking your chain that's about all that is going to stop these bikes..................Yes I have broken the chain and No I haven't run out of fuel.


Hope this helps

PS You should have 14V on tickover.

The bracket is from Adventure-spec for their Solstice lights. They gave me it hoping I would buy the lights!



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@SteveD: looks good, your solution!

Seriously: taking the bike for 5-mile stretch to work?? The engine of your Tenere won't like that, doesn't even get the chance to heat up properly with that distance....
But hey, that's your choice.
My '08 Tenere hasn't had any major problems so far, at 90.000km's, but I only ride it for fun in weekends and holidays/travels; for commuting I always ride my bicycle(only 7km's one way, so 14km's every day, no sweat!).
Greetz, Hans.