Re: Voltage Regulator and Generator Troubleshooting Help

Posted by Packard 1948 On 2016/4/27 15:46:59

So here is the report on the charging issue...this adventure started off when the old faithful voltage regulator circuit breaker contact kept sticking closed and killing the battery so I decided to simply replace it. Ordered one from Max Merritt and installed it and it worked fine for a couple of weeks.

Then it became intermittent. I pulled the cover off and the voltage regulator contacts were not lined up and that was problem so I ordered another one.

The second one didn't work at all.

Generator field anf armature voltages were as expected...tried the other voltage regulators and they did not work... spent two days trouble shooting took the car to an old school generator shop who determined that all THREE voltage regulators were bad.

Ordered one from Kanter and it worked fine.

It appears that both Merritt and Kanter use the exact same vendor so it has nothing to do with who you buy it from...

Merritt stood by their product and will refund the money.

Anyhoo... what are the chances of getting two bad voltage regulators in a row?