Aftermarket R/R.

I'm still looking to buy a R/R as a back up unit in case I have problems with the one in my VFR that I'm gonna ride in NZ.

I found the aftermarket replacement for the Regulator/Rectifier - it's made by ElectroSport. Here's the link-a: http://www.electrosport.com/shopping...d_esr580.html#

Motorcycle Accessory Warehouse used to sell them, but they said "we've had too many of these come back to us, so we don't sell them any more."

So is it worth it to save 60 bucks to get the aftermarket unit? Anyone have experience with their model ESR580?

- Thanx
- Jon
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On Monday 5Mar, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Jon Bauer wrote:

> I'm still looking to buy a R/R as a back up unit in case I have
> problems with the one in my VFR that I'm gonna ride in NZ.
>
> I found the aftermarket replacement for the Regulator/Rectifier -
> it's made by ElectroSport. Here's the link-a: http://
> http://www.electrosport.com/shopping...d_esr580.html#
>
> Motorcycle Accessory Warehouse used to sell them, but they said
> "we've had too many of these come back to us, so we don't sell them
> any more."
>
> So is it worth it to save 60 bucks to get the aftermarket unit?
> Anyone have experience with their model ESR580?
>
Lots of stuff in the archives on this unit. Opinions seem mixed, and
there were definitely QC issues for a while that the Electrosport
people acknowledged. The archives might have thoughts about that
particular model.

IIRC, someone bought a heavy duty R/R directly from Shindingen (who
makes the Honda unit) and saved some bucks. P/N in the archives.

If you don't mind dealing with the connector (i.e. breaking your
single block connector out into individual spade connects) you can
use pretty much any R/R, so long as the donor motorcycle had a
charging system with similar capacity (so most modern litre bikes
should do fine). They come up on eBay used fairly regularly.

later,
Johnj
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