[Healeys] BJ8 Voltage regulator

[Oliver Viitamaki]

     Thanks Michael, on your suggestion I checked the ground wire on the 
regulator, and the resistance to a known good ground, from the 3 
regulator mounting screws (yes they isolate the regulator from ground, 
but make a ground connection test point) was 0.3 ohms, and the regulator 
base/backing plate was 0.4 ohms, to the same known good ground. It 
remained that way during and after wiggling the ground wire, on the 
grounding point on the regulator, and where the screw connects it to 
ground.  So I think this rules out a loose ground. The meter used is a 
Fluke 77 series III, so I trust what the meter is reading.

     ov

On 30-Jun.-2019 6:01 p.m., Michael Salter wrote:
> Hi Oliver, not sure if this will help but I chased a similar problem 
> many years back which turned out to be caused by a poor but not 
> completely failed ground of the regulator E terminal.
> Might be worth checking that carefully.
>
> M
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 8:43 PM Oliver Viitamaki, <ov at telus.net 
> <mailto:ov at telus.net>> wrote:
>
>
>          What is the current thought on getting a replacement for a RB340
>     Voltage Regulator? Which supplier? I'm at the moment not
>     interested in
>     sending the regulator in for a rebuild.
>
>          The car is still positive ground, and I'm leaning to a
>     replacement
>     mechanical regulator, assuming that a Lucas one can be found. I
>     can be
>     convinced to go electronic, and convert to negative ground, given
>     enough
>     evidence.
>
>           Background: I went to wash the car, and noticed that the red
>     Ignition light came on, as it should, when the key was turned,
>     went off
>     as expected when the engine was idling. As soon as the engine was
>     speed-ed up, at about 1500 rpm, the ignition light would brighten,
>     come
>     back on. Troubleshooting so far, I completed the Lucas RB340
>     generator
>     checkout, procedure successfully, and as a crosscheck, I successfully
>     ran it as a motor. Then I turned my focus to the Lucas RB340
>     regulator
>     checkout procedure, and it showed that Open Circuit setting out of
>     spec,
>     could not be adjusted in and the swamp resistor was out of spec.
>
>          ov
>
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