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Pleiades
 Welcome on board Graeme.
It is not the regulator/rectifier unit that fails on the Tenere; it is the connector on the loom that causes the well documented problem of no charge, flat battery and dead bike.
Have a look in the connector on the loom and see if all the pins are intact and not corroded or melted. It is the earth pin in the corner of the block that is the one that normally melts and causes the problem.
Yamaha replaced the whole loom when rectifying (no pun intended) this issue, but for a bike out of warranty it is much more cost effective to replace the reg/rec unit with a secondhand one that has tails, rather than just a connector. This can then be spliced into the existing loom and the offending connector can be ditched.
Check out this thread for details…
http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=17054
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Big thanks Pleiades. **** on with that diagnosis. Took the connector off and it looked shot to **** and full of gunk.
Cleaned it out as best I could and scraped up each of the individual small plug sockets one by one and managed to get it charging the battery again.
Obviously this isn't a permanent fix but a rubber boot from LR Industries sealed in place with a cable tie might keep it out of trouble for a while until I can come up with a "permanent" solution? Any point greasing up the connections, I have no idea how to do this or what grease to use so a pointer in terms of links would be good.
Cheers.