Re: Owen Dyneto generator wiring

Posted by HH56 On 2017/11/24 16:41:09

The Franklin schematic on the ebay offering doesn't show a fuse but does show the grounded field and third brush just as your generator is configured. It is an interesting arrangement with the armature and the way the brushes are positioned supplying two separate closed voltage loops to individual pairs of field coils.

It appears it would rely on residual magnetism in order to supply a small starting voltage to energize the fields which in turn would enable more and more output as the fields strengthen until output reaches a maximum. I's like to find a description on how the regulation is done but I am guessing it is in the winding of the coils which reach a point where the strength reaches a max. I know it is just an illustration but it almost looks like the coil pairs are counter wound. If so there may be a point the field pairs will start to oppose each other so output cannot exceed a threshold.

Do the third brush generators get polarized the same way the more modern units do? That might be something to think about on yours. If there is no residual magnetism to start an output I don't see how there could ever be enough voltage supplied to the field to provide any kind of decent output.