Just burned through all this again and wanted to ask a question.

Anyone that has done this have you ever checked to see what the lighting coils are putting out in volts in dc power after the rectifier? Checked with a volt meter. To see if the lighting coils are charging the battery?

Had a friend wire up something on his 250r for his MSD and he said he floated the stator to the ac/dc regulator and runs a 12V battery. He checked the amperage output when the bike is running and it goes from 12V to 13.6V+/-. From running MSD he is able to check the amperage. Says it on the computer screen.

I am wondering if a battery is even needed to run the LED light bar when the bike is running. I could see using it to make sure the lights dont cut on and off at idle. LED dont need the startup amps like an HID light.

I will be doing this and was just wondering if anyone has checked it.