Question. Do all alternators have internal regulators?
Back in the day, my brand new '68 MGB had a Lucas alternator with
an internal regulator. The regulator would go bad and I had to
replace the alternator after 8-9 months. I did this 3 times.
No one could find the problem. I had a fog and a driving light and
with those on anything else I switched on, i.e., wipers, the no charge
light would come on. I know the early alternators did not have much
more output than the dynamos but it became $$$ and I traded the car in on
a '73 Capri V6.
I kept thinking if my car had an
"external" regulator I could have monitored that and saved an
alternator or 2.
Just curious.
DW
> Changing the dynamo for an alternator was one of the
modifications I glad
> I
> did to my Sprite but with 150
watts main beam and 100 watts dipped beam
> headlamps does skew
this for me.
>
>
> In a message dated 02/05/2013
01:30:42 GMT Daylight Time,
> dlh2001@comcast.net writes:
>
> As of yet nobody with an alternator conversion has
complained about
> anything
> on this list.
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