I wonder where have i overloaded the bike. I am just running a Powerful horn and thats it. No Halogen, nothing. Just the headlight is of hunk no major electrical modd's have been done to the bike.....!!! Could you please tell me what can be the reason behind the rapid discharge rate of my cbz???

Ok, what is the current rating of the horn? Hope it is not 2 Windtones/Nautilus!

yes, I guess its a windtone. Dont really know which kinda. Cause I havent got the bike here. I dont know the current rating. It sounds as a skoda octavia horn. Shall i get the coil rewinding done in oreder to use the horn...???

One horn is ok.. they are rated at 5A or so.. 2 of them is 10A, that's too high! Maybe you need to get your coil re winded. But, if it is a single horn and you do not horn excessively, maybe the battery died!

Hi

So on continuous riding and without using the horn would the battery charge up. Cause I'll be riding 230kms 2morrow without using the horn. Is it sufficient to charge it? I drive at 5+revs on the highway!

Yeah, it will charge if the battery is not dead!

What horn is that with 5A? I am using a Roots Vibrasonic meant for Cars rated only to 3.5A per peice. Am not sure about the Air hornes but I've used in my old bike Samurai with peanut 2.5A, but somehow managed but later I;ve switched to a 5Ah. That was a Stebel 3 pipes and one more Thunder also with 3 pipes, I dont think they might take this much current, but the current draw is pettty good than the other ones. Wind tones are just as same as the ordinary hornes only diff is the vibrating drum is diff, rest all are same as the nornal types, forget about the bigger ones used in cars with built in melody makers. If you are short of batt, then avoid melody maker will save you considerable amout of backup. I think last your assumption is right, batt must've worn out, else suspect the fuse and the fuse carrier because I've many incidents with the fuse carriers, which will be easily corroded due to acid fumes and few mech are least bothered about the breather pipe for the batt, they simply leave it unattached. Poor connection leads to poor charging, I've changed my fuse carriers more than 6 times in 5years. Max check the fuse carriers for corrsion, if its there, there lies your problem. Check the for dc out from the battery charging points.

After reading the all posts I came to this setup for my RTR. here is two setup for my bike. please suggest which one is perfect, considering a good health of battery etc.

Set up 2 is good for HID. If you are considering a 6055W h/l, this is a borderline case, may work or battery may be discharged slightly. Only you can try it out and let us know.

BTW, instead of a custom rectifier, you can also use another RR unit, if you don't want to build one.

Well the 2nd setup was the thing i we tried earlier and it worked fine for Abhi and Rahul but not for me. Donno the reason, probably the rectifier i made was wrong. I would recommend you to buy a rectifier rather than building own.

Why not the first option?

Secondly which bike's RR unit should I go for? (once my mech suggest to go for KB100, but that difficult to find, any other)

How do i will know which wire is for what in the new RR unit, as they dont come with any spec sheet?

Why should u use the stock RR if the new RR can feed the batt better?

Kauria, I would suggest you to read this thread fully, u will get ur answer about wire connection ideas and rr details too. Its not worth to repeat it all the time for everytime.

Hey Shreeni, could u gimme the details on how u converted ur bike/headlight to DC??

I wanne do the same thing on mine... I visited one of the most reputed mech's in mumbai - reddy to get this done... but even he is a bit reluctant on doing this since he's never done it on a unicorn...

Converting headlights to DC is simple job but maintaining the battery charge rate is a pain until u swap the RR unit with that of APE's or Minidor's.

You just have to disconnect AC wire going to Switch assembly and power it with a good gauge wire from ignition or any other DC source. On the output it is better to use relays. I have used 2 small relays, 1 each for high and low. There are single relays which can handle both high and low. Every car auto electrician will know this for sure.

How about urs Shreeni? Have u got corrected with a new RR? I would love to hear that Uni's stator bypass surgery was a bug free