What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

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Part No, 5EA-81950-10

Cheers Chris.



Looking at the diode I mentioned yesterday, not sure I'm testing it correctly looking at the pic in the workshop manual. Not just a plain and simple diode of the older bikes.

 

I'll have a look at the couple of relays I've got here tomorrow and see if I have one of those.

 

The simplest way to test a diode is with a 12V battery and a small 12v bulb, in series with the diode. The bulb should light well with the diode one way and not at all, not even dimly, the other way. Not a definitive test but useful for a sanity check at least.

Plenty of digital meters have a continuity  function on them, but I've noticed they all make a beep at different levels of resistance, there's no standard at all, so where one might beep for a few ohms of resistance and not higher than 10 Ohms, some still beepo as if there's continuity over a 50 Ohm resistor. Perhaps there's a standard I've overlooked but every meter type I've used have all had slightly different 'continuity thresholds'. Best thing to check is the diodes resistance both ways, but you don't discover high current leakage phenomenon and failures using the low current of the meter.