I was putting a piece of aluminum strip on for cooling and then potting them in various containers, no problems heard of.

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Cookie


A guy with two sidecars can't be all bad.
Owner of 4.4 76s and one lone 75 Wings (does a spare engine make .2?)

There is not a need for the capacitors for voltage balencing. And 99.9% of the time when one of these transistor based regulators fail, they go open and you have no output. But the old Points regulators can fail closed and then 12 Volts do hit the gages.

A LM317 is a nice Chip regulator. By changing the risistors values you can make a 12 volt battery charger for solar panels that output 18V to 30V DC. By bridging them you can get over 10 AMPs of output. I have build a few solar powered battery banked backup units.

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Retired US ARMY Signal
Old Mopars TT 65 B-Cuda in the works, 78 Dodge LRT with 425 HP 360
80 GL-1100 Faux Interstate
03 Suzuki Burgman 650 Supersized Scooter - Darksided Potenza Car Tire on the rear

I think I will just spend the money and stay OEM on this part, the gas gaguse showsmfull when I know it isn't and the temp gauge is stuck on H whe I know it is not HOT.

I'm not sure you can get new OEM anymore. And used one's would be hit and miss on working. I have gotten some from an ebay seller called roberth9. They work very well and price isn't bad.

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1976 Goldwing Super Sport
1982 GL1100 Standard Bagger (in progress)
1985 Honda Elite
1976 KZ900 Dragbike
1992 ZX7 Dragbike (KZ900 style motor w/NOS)
and a rotation of various purchases

Too far gone from stock but it works. I will concentrate on my cooling system instead.

The gas and temp gage do not work properly but I can live with those for now. I knew that when I bought it.

Thanks to everyone for the great info. I would never have figured out the problem, let alone the solution to the 2 gauges both failing. I went with torgo's solution of the mouser part. Very inexpensive solution, and I can say it works great, with no extra resistors or other stuff to assemble. Very good for those of us with only moderate electrical skills. This was easy for me! Mouser was great to deal with, even to Canada, I recieved my package in a week using the least expensive USPS option, total cost including shipping was about $12. It's soooo nice to have those gauges working again!

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1975 GL1000 Antares red Nanaimo BC Canada