Xpat, put a voltage meter on your battery, then start bike. let idle for a while
and watch meter, then you may have to rev bike just a bit to get voltage up,
with standard regulator. When mine was over charging, I still rode about
100k`s before I got home. No fuses blown, just not rev-counter, etc, working.
When I checked it, it shot to 18 volts before I hit the kill switch.
After the new Mosfet reg/rec voltage when to 14.2 volts, while idling and
stayed there, even with headlights and slight revs.
Here is the link where I got mine from, now all my bikes have one fitted. My
X country and brand new Nuda, which have the same crap rec/reg, all
now charge at 14.2 volts, right from idle, headlights or not.
http://motoelectrixcom.myshopify.com/