[Healeys] You will get a charge out of this!

[Peter Schauss]

Years ago, I had a Dodge van which behaved this way and the problem turned
out to be a bad battery.

HTH,
Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Quinn, Patrick
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:26 PM
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> Subject: [Healeys] You will get a charge out of this!
> 
> G'day
> 
> My normal reliable Austin-Healey gave a hiccup over the weekend.
> 
> Saturday was an impossibly hot day to be out in an Austin-Healey, but we
> diligently motored on in a club run spurred on by the thought of a few
> cold
> amber ales at our destination and the nasty thoughts against the occupants
> of
> two BJ8s with air-conditioning.
> 
> I have an ammeter installed and noticed that it was reading +30 quite some
> time after it should have started to read 0. Switching on the radiator fan
> reduced it to +15 and with the lights on down a bit further. On idle at
> traffic lights it would drop down to just below 0.
> 
> Methinks it's the voltage regulator not doing what it's supposed to do.
> Went
> looking for my points file yesterday where it should be, but of course
> couldn't find it.
> 
> Is my thinking along the correct path?
> 
> Hoo Roo
> 
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
> 
> 
> 
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