Motorcycle Repair: electrical, ac volts, meter check

Question
QUESTION: mike i've emailed you before and you always have steered me right. i have an 86 heritage. about a year and a half ago i replaced the stator and rectifier. yesterday i came in from doing about a hundred miles pulled into my driveway got off and the bike died no ignition lights no neutral light nothing, as if you turned the ignition switch off.this was eerily familiar because thats what happened when my stator went bad. this is the strange part. when the ignition switch was turned on i would hear a click like a switch being energized. out of the corner of my eye i noticed every time i heard the click the wire from the rectifier back to the battery would jump.the clicks were about 8 secs apart. does this make any sense or have you ever run into this before? today i put the battery on the charger. pulled the plug to the stator turned the ignition switch on and had lights an neutral. plugged the stator back in turned the ignition switch on and had everything. haven't tried starting the bike yet sorry to be so long winded but i need some advice and wanted to give you all the info i could thanks

ANSWER: Once the battery is charged start the bike and at the battery what voltage are you showing at around 2000 RPM?
Mike

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QUESTION: 12.2 volts

ANSWER: Your not charging so you need to to a OHMs and a AC voltage test on the stator.
Mike

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QUESTION: could you please tell me how to correctly do that thanks

Answer
With a OHMs meter check from wire to wire on the stator. Should show OHMs. Go from single wire to ground. Should show zero OHMs. Do that with the other wire. Same thing. Now with a AC volt meter, start the bike and at the plug you should show around 50 AC volts. If the stator passes the above tests then the regulator is bad. If it fails then the stator is bad
Good luck and happy riding
Mike