OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Repairs and Maintenance Questions on Engines Questions On Honda Engines Honda GXV160 power increase ?

Gambler, I still can't see how you are charging the battery, you are bypassing it and hoping a bit of power will stick in them. Of course you will get 13.8 volts, you can pick that reading up anywhere on any positive wire but it is not going into the battery.You have to put power into the battery and then draw the needed power from the battery, make the battery do the work, as it is at the moment the battery is having a holiday. As it is wired of course you don't need an exciter wire because you already have it wired into the circuit.You are combining your charge wire with the exciter wire. You have to go back to the basics as per a car it was fitted in. Alternator charge goes to the battery, the exciter wire brings the alternator into circuit, the alternator charges the battery and everything is then fed from the battery. This is not the way you have it wired.My son looked at the early pic of it with the 2 batteries in place and his immediate reaction was it won't work. If you would like I have a mate who lives 5 mins away and he is an autoelec and I can flick him the drawing and get his opinion and go and discuss it with him. I'm not saying you should retire, but often it is the simple things that can trip us up.