V-Strom Smoking

One day last week, I turned on the engine. It idled..., then smoke start billowing from the back of left rear side panel. 

Hmmmm..... Not good. 

After this incident, I've noticed that I'm not getting enough voltage to charge the battery. Putting this info and where the smoke came from, I called the voltage regulator / rectifier the culprit.

After examining, sure enough. 

Luckily, I had a back up. Installed it and she is getting 14.5 volt again.

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