How to check condenser on vintage Honda motorcycle.

checking condenser on the 1972 honda cl-70.

[@JasonLunnon]

Good video dude. Thanks very much. Found my problem thanks to your video. I had a joiner between the coil and condenser which ended up having loads of resistance. So it would discharge fine at the joiner area, but wouldn’t discharge at the coil end. Legend.

[@fritzcp]

awesome how to vid. thanks so much for taking the time to post that, both with a good and bad condenser.

[@AdamzGarage]

Thanks for the comment, glad it helped. 👍

[@davidmccormick4319]

To anyone wanting to know if their condenser is faulty, this is an exciting video.

[@spooncarvingwithtom]

Thanks Adamz, good video, I believe 'OL' on the multimeter stands for Open Loop.

[@ka0skontrol504]

OL stands for Open Line... but you were close enough. Just thought I'd clarify 😃

[@anthonysova7117]

@@ka0skontrol504take a look at the information with the meter actually OL means overloaded in any selection of the meter Cheers open loop open circuit meaning just slang meaning the same thing

[@ka0skontrol504]

This video explains a lot and it helped me to diagnose what was burning my contact breaker points on my old Kawasaki KZ305

[@ebrosz]

I also have a kz305. It's been a problem child

[@shaquillemanagement1799]

nice explanation...others only test the ohm not when discharging

[@123viktorf]

Thank you this really helped out am working on old outboards. So the slower and the more volts it holds back is a bad capasitor. Thanks again.

[@AdamzGarage]

Yeah thats pretty much the just of it. Glad it helped!!

[@kksuki7876]

You can go to capacitance measurement mode by going three clicks right past your ohmmeter mode. A direct reading is definitely much easier than waiting for voltage to drop from a charged capacitor.😂

[@ramdhanalzidjali1678]

Very useful advise thanks

[@bubhed720]

Awesome and very helpful. Thank you sir!

[@AdamzGarage]

Your welcome 👍

[@ralphwatten2426]

'67 Honda "305" Scrambler starts and runs and the left cylinder cuts out after about 30 seconds. I'll give this a try.

[@billphillips3866]

Great video!!

[@AdamzGarage]

Thank you!!

[@johnmoloney1661]

Helped me ! Thanks

[@AdamzGarage]

Great! Glad it helped.

[@gordon985]

Was kinda thinking you were going to show how many farads it is supposed to be. But your meter doesn't even measure farads

[@dannymotovlogs4254]

Very thorough thanks

[@AdamzGarage]

Thanks for the comment 👍

[@ka0skontrol504]

​@@AdamzGarage love it when a content creator tries to respond to their comments. It shows that they care. 👍

[@theq-1]

Ive been trying to find it on a 1978 c90

[@estebanruiz6228]

Why do you have comments off on some of your videos?

[@frankdavidson9675]

sorry but those #s dont mean anything you can not test a capasitor with an ohmmeter they are rated in micro fareds you need a microfared meter to test them my trk need a 27 micro fared capisitor for max current to spark you can install wrong value it will work to a degree but causes your points to pit --- check if the points are pitting ---wrong or defective capisitor swap it out

[@krusher74]

MIne would not move of O.L so I guess it's bad. (and for you Americans there is an L in solder, its not spelled soder. )

[@SamCyanide]

And there's a t in "Tuesday" ;)

[@davidmccormick4319]

@@SamCyanide no.... it’s chewsday.... with a Ch.

[@ka0skontrol504]

Don't forget Turdsday

[@randy1ization]

alu- mimimum...

[@randy1ization]

will a motor run with a bad condensor.. im trying to set my timing with a light and battery but it doesnt dim the light.. bike runs, but not well

[@AdamzGarage]

It can actually cause a weak spark, which will cause rough running .

[@randy1ization]

@@AdamzGarage the spark seemed strong when I tested it, but under load it may have been breaking down. im wondering if the ignition caused the backfiring.. im thinking that the H model with the flywheel weight timing advance set up may not be as refined as the ones without. levers under spring tension that kick out from centrifugal force that varies the inserted lobe doesnt seem too accurate?

[@randy1ization]

my condensor read .003 MFD .. so I think it is shot.. I will check the new one for future reference.

[@AdamzGarage]

@@randy1ization yeah sounds like it's bad.👍

[@randy1ization]

the new capacitor reads. .002 on the 200 mfd scale

[@SamCyanide]

Nobody does this with it in the bike :/

[@ka0skontrol504]

That's because of two reasons. One, it makes it more complicated and two, different bikes have different configurations and some if not most of them use the body of the condenser as the negative point on it. Basically, it means that you would introduce too many extra variables by trying to test it while it's still bolted to the bike.