The other night as I was driving the TR3A home from a car club meeting I
noticed that my ignition warning light was on full. I only live a few minutes
away so I went home. I checked it out as best I could (not my strong suit)
but could find nothing obviously wrong. The next morning I drove it over to
our local generator/alternator/starter guy and he hooked it all up and said
the
generator is fine and the voltage regulator needs to be replaced. He took
off the cover and showed me that the coil contact at the D terminals was not
closing and he pushed it with his finger and it made contact and the light
went out and the ammeter went into a charge situation until it settled at 0
again. He said to shut it off and the contact opened again. Normal. I
ordered
a new voltage regulator and installed it and at idle the contacts remained
open but when I reved it the contact would "flutter" and not stay closed. I
drove the car and the light stayed on so I returned home. With the motor
running I opened the regulator and closed the contact and it behaved fine. I
shut
it off, checked out connections, started it again, red light on, closed the
contact, but this time
the yellow wire from the D terminal to the ignition warning light smoked and
melted. I have pulled out the warning light and the white wire from the
warning light to the ignition switch is fine. The only damaged wire is the
yellow and it does not appear to have damaged any other wire in the harness,
but I
need to open it and look more closely.
Any input on what happened? There is no question that the regulator is
connected correctly. This was marked, checked, and double checked.
David Lylis
69 TR6 CC26160L
60 TR3A TS74461LO
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