TV2 electrics

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Steveshipley
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hi just starting to strip a TV2 for restoration. I'm intending keeping it as original as possible (bar a paint refresh) been looking at the electrics and I think I've found the taped off battery feed, but I'm confused by a single brown wire that comes out of the junction box/rectifier and goes to a cylindrical thing (condenser capacitor ???) that's just fastened to the frame. no output from it just a single wire in.
any idea of its function and why it is there?

Thanks Steve
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Is this your system?
http://scooterhelp.com/electrics/wiring ... .wbatt.pdf

A photo might help determine what's going on.
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yeah I think so Grumpy, that's similar to the one in Stickys book, but there's no single brown wire going out to a capacitor thingy....?
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Looks like someone's fitted an external condenser, is there one on the stator? Was it connected to the greens
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don't know, haven't taken the flywheel off yet or opened the rectifier. I'll check tomorrow.
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Steveshipley wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:43 pm hi just starting to strip a TV2 for restoration. I'm intending keeping it as original as possible (bar a paint refresh) been looking at the electrics and I think I've found the taped off battery feed, but I'm confused by a single brown wire that comes out of the junction box/rectifier and goes to a cylindrical thing (condenser capacitor ???) that's just fastened to the frame. no output from it just a single wire in.
any idea of its function and why it is there?

Thanks Steve
sounds like a remote condensor . Its a very good way of fitting a points condensor as you can test it and replace it without removing the flywheel cowling. you can either wire a new condensor into the Stator as per original or fix a new condensor to the wire and clamp the condensor to the frame at a good earthing point out of sight somewhere or better still fit a 2x wire condensor
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what's a 2xwire condenser? cheers
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That's not normal. I think the wire being brown was just what was used. Follow the diagram and you won't go wrong.

Like others have posted it's a secondary condenser, usually used to try to solve an ignition problem (tied to a green wire before the coil). Once you dig in to the stator and associated wiring it should make a lot more sense.
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thanks chaps, starting to make sense now.

excellent forum - great help as ever.

Cheers steve
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