Re: 1931 - No charge
Posted by HH56 On 2023/9/10 10:04:32
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Greenfield wrote:
Thanks Marty. I'll give it a try. Just curious -- Did your generator put out current one day and not the next? What would cause the generator to lose polarity -- in my case I haven't hooked up the battery backwards or done anything electrical to the car. Thanks.
Believe the usual reason for a generator to suddenly stop working is brush problems. A loose connection or broken wire, or one of the contacts or components in the regulator or cutout could also have failed.
In some of the 3 brush generators the max amp output is monitored by a fuse in the cutout assembly and excessive current produced by the generator sometimes caused by a brief short of misadjustment of the third brush could have caused the fuse to blow.
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