<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Simon</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The ignition needs some voltage to work properly. If the battery is flat, not only does it make the starter not working, it also makes the ignition not working.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Someone suggested disconnect the fan belt, start the engine with the help of a healthy battery. If the strange noise is gone then you can be assured that your generator have some bad bearings, and is not able to provide the current needed to feed the ignition.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Per<br><br>Skickat från min iPhone</div><div><br>11 apr. 2017 kl. 10:12 skrev Simon Lachlan <<a href="mailto:simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk">simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks for all the replies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Now, I had thought that we were facing two separate issues:-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The battery was flat because of frequent short trips and then a series of attempts to start a recalcitrant engine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The engine was “making a weird noise” and generally misbehaving which led to more attempts to start and a flatter and flatter battery……the one thing leading to the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Are you guys suggesting that the battery – still under guarantee – and/or the generator could cause the engine to stutter, under rev and go gutless? ie that, let’s say, a fluctuating output from the generator could cause fluctuations in the ignition circuit? That would be contrary to what I’d expect. Generators fail………the lights go dim but the engine, if it dies at all, does so unspasmodically? (If that’s even a word!). In my experience, it’s more a question of the battery being flat as a pancake when you next try to start the car. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And, of course, we haven’t heard if the charging light has come on. What about that, PH?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></blockquote></body></html>