Re: Six volt Sunday

Posted by 53 Cavalier On 2023/4/30 9:55:18

This is a very timely topic, as I'm just had my generator rebuilt after it got hot and upon inspection I found it had "thrown solder" Shop calibrated my regulator at the same time, which was okay for a bit, but then started acting up, not charging. Generator was fine, it was regulator troubles. Had two spare regulators, one didn't work, the other did.

My car, 53 Cavalier, should have a 45 amp regulator, but the one on it is 41 amp, is this potentially a problem? The one that was on when the generator died was a 41 amp as well. The "Voltage Regulator" points were burnt, which I don't know if that was what caused my generator to burn up, or happened because my generator burned up? I'm thinking I should get a new regulator, the proper size.

Did I see somewhere on here that someone was making a solid state regulator that looked like the factory regulator? Or did I see that somewhere else?

Happy Sunday!