[Healeys] Generator?

[Alex]

Thanks, John. Well, I made all those checks, and the filed wire is 
connected and live.

== Alex in Maine
1960 BT7


On 9/4/2018 10:57 AM, banjojohn wrote:
> Alex
> This 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)
>
>
>
> Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7.
>
> -------- 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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