[Healeys] Generator?

[banjojohn]

AlexThis may be a ridiculous suggestion, but my generator was not working recently and I  finally noticed that the field wire had come loose at my voltage regulator.  At first I  was so busy looking around the genny that I never looked at the firewall where the regulator is and didn't see the wire hanging loose.  John O'Brien'65 BJ8 (Madelyn)'61 Bugeye (Lucy)


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-------- Original message --------From: Alex <alexmm at roadrunner.com> Date: 9/2/18  4:25 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: healeys at autox.team.net Subject: [Healeys] Generator? 

My BT7 generator seems dead. There's no output voltage at point D on the 
generator at speed.

There's good -12V at regulator terminals A and A1.  Might the series 
coil and normally-open points on the regulator be open?

The engine lamp lights up, and starts to dim at around 3000 RPM. The 
regulator has only 400 miles on it since replacement. My ammeter shows 
zero amperes, although it will show a discharge if I turn on the lights.

Any thoughts before I pull the dynamo and check the brushes and commutator?

== Alex in Maine
1960 BT7


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