ZUMZUMZUM- from Romania to Thailand on a bike

One of the more common faults of the Africa Twin, is the voltage rectifier malfunctioning.

There are 2 ways in which the rectifier can die, if you are lucky it will not supply enough voltage and you will be stranded in the middle of nowhere with a dead battery. If you are not so lucky it will supply too much tension and will burn the electrical installation.

Neither of these 2 alternatives is something that one would really enjoy on a long distance trip, so the safe thing to do is to have some way to monitor the status of the rectifier.

I found a nifty little voltmeter that I could install and for good measure I also bought a thermometer (so we could brag about riding in 40+ degrees in Iran) .

A good place to install them is on the trip meter, so with the help of Len we made a little bracket out of some aluminum sheet and tucked them undet the windscreen.

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