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Motorcycle Electrical Systems: Troubleshooting and Repair (Motorbooks Workshop) | 
 enlarge | Author: Tracy Martin
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 34930
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0760327165
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.27
EAN: 9780760327166
ASIN: 0760327165
Publication Date: February 15, 2007
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Product Description
A motorcycle’s electrical system can be daunting to even the most adept home mechanic. And yet, the more complex these systems become?and the more important to a motorcycle’s function?the more useful, even critical, it will be to know something about them. That’s where this book comes in with a user-friendly guide to understanding, diagnosing, and fixing the electrical systems and components that make a bike run . . . or falter.
Veteran technician Tracy Martin explains the principles behind motorcycle electrical systems and how they work. He details the various tools, such as multimeters and test lights, that can be used to evaluate and troubleshoot any vehicle's electrical problem. And in several hands-on projects, he takes readers on a guided tour of their vehicle’s electrical system, along the way giving clear, step-by-step instructions for diagnosing specific problems.
Book Description
A user-friendly guide to understanding, diagnosing, and fixing the electrical systems and components that make a bike run?or falter?this book explains the principles behind motorcycle electrical systems, details the various tools, such as multimeters and test lights, that can be used to evaluate and troubleshoot their failures, and offers several hands-on projects that demonstrate fixes for specific problems.
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 A good instruction manual with only a few faults July 30, 2008
JRC1515 (St. Paul, MN)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is straightforward and easy-to-read. It covers various aspects of critical test instruments, electronic components, troubleshooting techniques, and shortcuts. It has a chapter with practice problems designed to improve the reader's ability to use circuit diagrams. In particular, the sections on testing by voltage drop and using wiring diagrams are particularly useful.
The book is a bit marred by a few (not too many) mistakes and weak explanations. The author gets the relationship between dwell angle and point gap backwards, and at one point he describes a test method as "place the red lead here, and the red lead here". He clearly meant one of the leads to be the ground (black) but it could prove confusing to the target audience. He gives short shrift to CD ignitions and magnetos. His states his coil testing procedures will work on all coils, without clarifying if that includes capacitive coils as well as inductive types (CD coils are a special case, as they do not have 12 volt primaries). His stator testing heuristic -wattage divided by four equals output AC voltage- is useful but given without information as to why the rule-of-thumb holds true.
These lapses are not indicative of a lack of knowledge on the author's part, but point toward a need for a better review of the draft manuscript prior to publication.
Even with faults, I give the book a "B+". It is worth reading, with the caveat that a reader may have to crosscheck a topic with another source if it just doesn't seem right.
It goes without saying the best use of the book is to read and study it *before* the information is needed. Absorbing the knowledge during an emergency repair situation is difficult at best, impossible at worst.
Well-written and authoritative...a pleasant surprise. July 30, 2008
Book (FL, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a motorcycle mechanic, a motorcycle enthusiast, and a degreed Mechanical Engineer. I collect and read books that deal with motorcycle maintenance, repair, improvement, and design. MOST of the books that I read are filled with popular misconceptions and misguided "shop knowledge" based on the "experience" of a poorly trained or poorly educated author. This particular book is well-researched, reasonably well-edited, well-formatted, and pretty easy to understand. It contains accurate technical information and is certainly capable of giving the reader a solid foundation in understanding and troubleshooting motorcycle electrical systems.
I knew nothing about electrical systems before this book January 7, 2008
T. Greaser (WV)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Im very happy that i bought this book. I have to dispell the one reviewer whom was upset about the fact he went over his fluke multi meter.. I dont think it was a sales pitch at all. He was just explaining the product so you could follow along. YES this made me want to throw away my crappy multi meter.. If your new to this kinda home mechanic kinda stuff i would recommend this book!!!
motorcycle Electric systems October 17, 2007
David Strassburg
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This manual does exacly as it says in simple clear terms. what more can you ask for.
A Great Motorcycle Reference February 9, 2007
Zina Deretsky (Wheaton, MD USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought Tracy Martin's other book on automotive electrics, and as a motorcyclist, I was really excited when this book came out. It's more of the same high quality of work. He's got a real knack for explaining concepts in plain language I can understand easily. His illustrations are also very easy to follow. This book is great because there are lots of new material on motorcycle specific topics such as battery tenders, accessories, rebuilding starters, points ignition (where else can you find a current book that covers points???), and fuel injection.
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