Stator

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I have an 82 XV920 which I have had about a month. The battery light is on. When I checked the stator by the book I should have had .5 ohms across the three white wires but I had 0.  So I got another stator off of E Bay.  I tested the stator before I installed it and it also had 0 ohms.  Being that I had already had the original stator off the bike I installed the new one. The battery light is still on. Is there a problem with the stators on these bikes and if not what else would cause the battery light to come on?

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There isn't  a problem with the Stators on the 920's that I am aware of. There is a procedure in the Clymer's Service Manual for checking the stator with an ohm meter. Set the meter to Ohms x 1 scale. Check each white wire against the other. The reading should be 0.5 ohms, if it is anything else, check the wire from the coil to the terminal and the terminal itself and make sure they are OK. Then take one lead of the meter to a good frame/engine ground and check each of the white wires. You should not get a reading. If you do get continuity, then the stator is bad and must be replaced.
The battery light is powered by a sensor in one of the cells in the battery. If the battery is low on water, the light will come on. It doesn't indicate a low charge in the battery, just insufficient water in that cell. You could also have a bad sensor. Check the sensor wiring if your battery is full of water.

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Thank You for the information on the battery.  With the light on I assumed (just an ass out of me) that it wasn't charging.  I did do the stater ohm check with a good electricians ohm meter and had 0 ohms and no ohms to ground.  The battery could be going dead because of the number of times I have been starting the bike.  I'm going to check it the was I check my Hondas by using an amp meter across the main fuse.  
  I already put a different stator in.