Here's a real WAG - Is it possible that you have a loose wire or connection?
Idle goes low, car shakes, loose wire touches ground, rapid discharge. Over
time the wire moves away from whatever it was touching and the generator
starts recharging the seriously drained battery.
Just a thought,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gajic" <michaelgajic@hotmail.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:59 AM
Subject: Generator- did it again
> Hi everyone,
>
> My discharging issues continued last night. I let the revs drop a bit too
> low when taking off from rest and the ammeter again showed a strong
> discharge (i.e. -30 and red light on strongly) and reving made no
> difference. It continued for a few minutes and gradually decreased until
it
> got to about -10 and stayed there (red light still on strongly). Reving
> again made absoultuely no difference.
>
> After a little while the ammeter needle suddenly jumped to +20 ish and the
> ammeter showed a good charge until I got home (light went out). When the
> needle jumped revs were at about 2500 rpm.
>
> Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael Gajic
> 63' TR4 CT23641 O
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