From: nick on
BillW50 wrote:

> Hi Nick! I was thinking in another direction than Barry or Shaun was. As
> I was thinking that at best, maybe a fuselink has blown going to the
> battery charger circuit. At worse, a chip or two has failed.
>

My friend has got back to me re chargers. He has used a couple of
different chargers, neither of them original, with no problems. The
schematics in the service manual show no trace of a 3rd wire, so it
looks like the charger control chip has failed.

Thanks for all the helpful input guys.