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Re: [Mgs] gen to alt

To: "Bob Donahue" <bobmgtd@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] gen to alt
From: Paul Osborne <paul@ece.rochester.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:11:46 -0400
Cc: mgs <mgs@autox.team.net>
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References: <03D8BF37B2A9499BBCA32958B54DDC30@OwnerPC> <201210271504.q9RF4qm5024044@nlpi176.prodigy.net> <9829037B92E647D3A03CC0137FDBD7DF@yourmb2swywknr>
BUT, you can purchase a solid state regulator, install it in your relay
regulator box , and all looks orig.

paul o
On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Bob Donahue wrote:

> I agree. Alternators have reliable solid state regulators built in. Relay
type regulators, that generators use, are the weakest link in the charging
system, IMHO.
>
> Bob Donahue (Still Stuck in the '50s)
> Email - bobmgtd@comcast.net
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barney Gaylord" <barneymg@mgaguru.com>
> To: "Tom Gunderson" <thgun@comporium.net>; "Mga List" <Mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] gen to alt
>
>
>> Generator is often cheap and easy to repair, commonly only needs brushes.
However, if the generator is melted inside due to a failed control box, that
would be a good time to consider the alternator conversion.  In recent years
replacement control boxes have been notoriously unreliable. When a regulator
relay fails, the bad $40 control box takes out a good $100 generaor along with
it.
>>
>> Barney Gaylord
>> 1958 MGA with an attitude
>> http://MGAguru.com
>>
>>
>> At 07:19 AM 10/27/2012 -0400, Tom Gunderson wrote:
>>> If I find that my generator is not working should I go to an alternator?
>>> 1957 MGA 1500
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