[Spridgets] generator/regulator - Progress
    Michael Rowe 
    mdrowe at optonline.net
       
    Fri Apr 26 09:25:55 MDT 2013
    
    
  
Following advice, I bought a really cheap analog voltmeter, which works 
where my expensive digital one does not.  If the polarity is wrong, the 
needle moves backward, which makes it easy.  It is very small, so reading 
are approximate.
So here's what I have found just now:
- New battery, new regulator (supposedly adjusted by Moss), new generator.
- With engine off, voltage is 12+ = fresh battery.
- Spark generator directly from battery to regulator F terminal.
- With engine on, battery voltage drops.
- With engine on, voltage at the regulator F terminal is 24v or more, which 
John Twist says means the generator is not properly polarized.
So how do I polarize it?  Is it dead if it does not respond properly?
Michael Rowe
The Holy Sprite
    
    
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