geez... not another stator question...

[Night Vision]

ok, here's something that intrigues me...

I was just on Dennis Kirk looking at stators for my project bike (just in case my recent experiment on SmokeBomb doesn't pan out)

and I noticed....

the picture of the Rick's stator shows the that the windings are not slathered with epoxy. The windings seem to be more exposed than the Electrosport which are completely covered in epoxy. I've seem some others on eBay that kinda looked like just windings also.

The 4 charred stators I've encountered so far have all been the liberally expoxied type. The epoxy on the (top posts) windings all seemed to have charred/expanded together.

are people that have Rick's stators getting longer service out of them? Is it because perhaps that the epoxy holds the heat in more? (insulation works both ways)

I think a Rick's failed H20 after 1,000 miles...... but was it blister death?

[h2olawyer]

No noteworthy blistering on my failed Rick's.  It shorted out somewhere internally within the windings.  Rick's uses a clear epoxy coating.  Looks good new, but mine was a uniform dark brown all the way around at the time it failed.  Looked alot like the factory original I took out a year earlier.

H₂O

[kiawrench]

my rick's stator is working on 14 thousand miles now, , clean, neat and working good. i grabbed it from my first bike, mounted it in th eone i ride now, and it still works.
i ran a bunch of extra grounds, as well as the r/r from a different bike, bigger, better cooling ability (zuki gsx r 1100 )  took some head scratching to get wiring right, but once soldered and running, have had no problems since .