Harlan,
Can you suggest what bits would be needed for the kit? My experience
at Radio Shack was that the two guys in there gave me those wan,
vacant-eyed, get-this-Troglodyte-out-of -here looks. Neither one had any
idea what a generator was (nor dynamo), and blanked again when Positive
Earth was mentioned. RS may have the stuff, but they don't know where to
start looking for it.
As the high tension wires are genuine copper wires, I did install
resistor plugs. They helped a lot. There is still some crackling that I
think is distributor noise, and the whine of the generator that drowns
out the radio.
Bob
On Tue, 2 May 2000 07:52:36 -0500 "Harlan Jillson"
<hjillson@argohouston.com> writes:
> Bob, & David,
> Go down to you friendly local Radio Shack, and get a radio noise
> suppression kit. They usually consist of a module that is an inline
> inductor in the power feed circuit, with some filter caps going to
> ground. This will eliminate most or all of the noise induced by the
> alternator in the power circuit. Another source of noise is from
> the high tension circuit of the coil. If you're running copper core
> plug wires, they act like little transmitters and you radio will
> pick up each plug firing ( hence resistive plugs and carbon filiment
> wires).
> Harlan
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
> Reply-To: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 21:04:04 -0600
>
> >No answer to this one? I have similar problems with my 67BGT - I
> patched up
> >a cheap cassette player, running through the cigarette lighter
> using an
> >adapter. That way I avoided any positive ground problems like fried
> wires.
> >Works great except for that ignition/generator hum. I wouldn't mind
> a
> >little suppressor myself but how, where??
> >
> >David
> >67 BGT
> >71 BGT
> >
> >At 04:16 PM 4/30/00 -0400, Bob Howard wrote:
> >> I'm hooking up a vintage radio in my negative earth TD. Radio
> works ok
> >>without the engine, but needs supressing of generator and igntion
> noise.
> >>Question-I have the supressor for the generator--which terminal
> does it
> >>connect to?
> >>Bob
> >
> >
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