Scooterotica

Are these decent quality regulators or are there any better on the market?

nothing wrong with them at all, indian, work well, will trickle charge your battery.

Cheers Donnie. Just what I wanted to hear

I'm electronically "challenged" (i.e. I'm even thicker when it comes to electrics!) Can I simply replace the current regulator on my set up with a 5 pin one and then run a lead to a new 12v battery to charge it?

Chris

Yes Chris, you can

many thanks!

The charge will only be trickle though so if usec for a long time will go flat and will require either recharging at home or many hours riding without any draw on it

I thought you needed a DC stator plate to charge your battery.

All stator plates are AC, you wire them differently for different applications.

Regulator - one end of the lighting coils is earthed, either at the stator or externally. The regulator restricts the output to 12V on positive and negative sides (or is that 6 either way??) and bleeds the rest of as heat. They will produce AC.

Rectifier - both ends of the lighting coils are connected to the the rectifier which inverts and smooths the output as DC.

I'm afraid I'm in the same situation as bristolmod when it comes to wiring,all I know is that you need a DC stator plate to charge a battery because it has an extra wire that goes to the 5 pin regulator and a wire that comes from the regulator to the battery.