Don, TeriAnn,
You both point out that a properly functioning charging circuit should keep up
with the stock electrical accesories on a TR-3. My car doesn't have a heater
or radio. From time to time I've wanted to install a FAX machine, but not yet
:-) so excessive load is probably not to blame.
TeriAnn mentions several possibilities. My generator is newly rebuilt, I've
checked the regulator _and_ cutout per the shop manual. But...the F lead (the
fat one) from the dynamo failed a few years back. I patched it with some wire
of the same gauge, spliced with those crimp-on bullet connectors. Perhaps
that's causing the high-resistance circuit TeriAnn suggested. It would be easy
enough to replace the whole run from dynamo to regulator (with plain white
wire, of course), so I think I'll try that. It'd be a whole lot cheaper and
easier than going to an alternator!
Thanks,
Chris
PS, Don wrote:
> I wouldn't do it to a TR3, but TR4s are fair game...
Sometimes it seems '4s don't get any respect. Seems hardly fair. I grew up
during the '4s halcyon days of Group 44 and Kas Kastner. They were wonderful
looking, fast, just everything you'd want, *including* rack and pinion
steering. What I'd give for that!
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