[Spridgets] generator/regulator - continuing saga

[Jim Johnson]

Hang in there Mike...  You'll get it yet!   It's always the last problem
you find...   ;-)

Cheers!!
Jim

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Michael Rowe <mdrowe at optonline.net> wrote:

> I went again to the generator guy, who put his $4K testing machine on the
> battery.  It looked normal with engine off, and went bonkers with the
> engine on, just like mine.  He said, "I have never in my life seen that
> response."  So he poked around with a jumper and finally got something that
> looked normal on his terster when he jumped the negative battery terminal
> to the engine.  It's a bad ground, embarrassing to admit.
>
> So rather than fuss with the regular engine ground which is frozen, I
> cleaned up the firewall ground and added a second battery cable from the
> firewall to a transmission bolt in a convenient place.  No joy.  I assume
> the transmission has a gasket, but there are a lot of bolts going through
> to the engine, plus the normal engine ground is through the transmission
> via the slave cylinder.
>
> Back to the generator guy.  "Why didn't you attach it to the engine?  Are
> you just trying to make it look pretty?"  (Yes.)  "Forget about pretty.
>  Take this #10 wire and attach it to the starter bolt."
>
> Well, this time I didn't mess around:  I got out my big jumpers and
> attached one end to the firewall ground and the other end directly to the
> generator mount at the water pump.  Now I have a direct circuit from the D
> terminal to the regulator to the battery to the generator frame.  I am
> still not able to reproduce what the generator guy found.
>
> It's a Spridget moment.  Time for a beer.  Maybe two.
>
> Michael Rowe
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