[Healeys] Dead generator

[Oudesluys]

Sorry, its female. I am married to one for 36 years and boy do I know 
that law..
Kees Oudesluijs
NL


Alan Seigrist wrote:
> Curses, that Murphy is a nasty fellow!
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '59 Jag Mk IX
> '64 BJ8
>
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Ron <ron.kraimaat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> To all of you who read my cry for help and specificallly those who gave me
>> advise, here is an update.
>>
>> It took a while to get my generator problems fixed since I was on a one
>> week
>> holiday first.
>> I decided to take the easy approach: go back to the garage (driving the
>> Healey
>> with the faulty generator still mounted) where I bought the generator. My
>> luck
>> is that this garageowner repairs/owns/restores big Healeys and is only half
>> an
>> hour away..
>>
>> His first conclusion was that the voltage regulator was probably broken.
>> After
>> having him convinced that I should have read generator output on my
>> voltmeter,
>> he decided to get his and and some documentation. It looked like the
>> generator
>> was not OK.
>> He got a new generator and bolted it on my engine. I started the engine and
>> after about one second, the ignition light dimmed.
>> Problem fixed!!
>>
>> So this was another great example of Murphy's law, where both my old
>> generator
>> and the new one showed exactely the same symptoms.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ron Kraimaat
>> BJ8'64 Ph1
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