You could have bought the internal regulator for $12.00, too, and
installed it in situ.
Peter C
=
At 10:32 PM 5/2/2013, dwoerpel@wi.net wrote:
>Question. Do all alternators have internal regulators?
>
>Back in the day, my brand new '68 MGB had a Lucas alternator with
>an internal regulator. The regulator would go bad and I had to
>replace the alternator after 8-9 months. I did this 3 times.
>No one could find the problem. I had a fog and a driving light and
>with those on anything else I switched on, i.e., wipers, the no charge
>light would come on. I know the early alternators did not have much
>more output than the dynamos but it became $$$ and I traded the car in on
>a '73 Capri V6.
>
>I kept thinking if my car had an
>"external" regulator I could have monitored that and saved an
>alternator or 2.
>
>Just curious.
>
>DW
>
>
>
>
> > Changing the dynamo for an alternator was one of the
>modifications I glad
> > I
> > did to my Sprite but with 150
>watts main beam and 100 watts dipped beam
> > headlamps does skew
>this for me.
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 02/05/2013
>01:30:42 GMT Daylight Time,
> > dlh2001@comcast.net writes:
> >
> > As of yet nobody with an alternator conversion has
>complained about
> > anything
> > on this list.
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