[Healeys] FW: Lucas Generator

[Roger Grace]

Problem may not be the generator; presume that you have checked the belt for tightness as with increased load it could be slipping; I once had a Lucas gen. pulley glow at me in the dark after some 6 hrs of sustained night driving with lights and spots; have you checked that the voltage regulator is working and regulating volts to around 14.5 throughout the RPM range ?; also check the current regulator setting/operation as this too could be limiting the output at higher revs as voltage tends to rise.

From: J Armour 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:17 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net 
Subject: [Healeys] FW: Lucas Generator



Another request to the learned ones.

My 3000 has a Lucas  generator with the following numbers. Do we know what it is also fitted to;

C.40 R
22746B     and date 9.64

This unit is shorter in length than the standard item

Brushes have a screw fixing. What are standard 3000s fitted with?

Interestingly my generator acts as a rev warning when I have the lights and fog lights on. The lights go dull at certain revs as I think the brushes which are quite worn lift off the commutator. When I slow a few hundred revs the famous Lucas brightness returns.

Joe


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