JohnnyRection
CB750 Member
Then call it breaking open the system, to bypass means generally to go around a thing not using it. Careful putting battery directly to field, you may get some whopping a/c if you rev the bike up. Unregulated a/c in an alt can easily hit 75 volts in many of them.
I went around the rectifier by not using it to charge the field coil and then tested the ac coming from the alternator.
Just as I didn't hope for, the newest part of the system failed. I think I will go back to the original style of rectifier and regulator.