Re: Ammeter

Posted by Jimmyk On 2024/5/24 8:45:06

Terrible pic but was directions regarding all issues wi5 my generator. I started today identifying that the generator is a b type. Then starting with a battery measuring 6.2 volts the car started up. Then began testing..hard for me to determine high idle so I was just accelerating a bit..when testing at high idle I could get Around 6.6 volts at a much higher acceleration I could get it up to the 7.5 volts…but it was Erving high….testing at idle I’m always getting a slightly lower reading at the regulator then I do at battery and starter as I’m testing the battery is draining…after 30 minutes at low idle I’m at 5.91 at battery/starter and 5.85 at batt terminal at regulator….when idling I’m getting around 5.8 at arm terminal and that too will go up to 7 plus if I really accelerate….last it instructed me to conduct field test as the same advise I got here..it said to turn car off and remove field terminal wire from regulator ..restart the car to high idle and ground out the detached wire the voltmeter was grounded at battery as instructed and positive was attached to arm at generator for test….when I grounded the field wire I get very little voltage ..not even 1 volt..more like.
.5…so I assuming that’s a generator issue? I don’t know…I’m getting good ground at generator and regulator..hoping this will help trying to show what’s going on…I had to stop as it overheated sitting at idle for an hour..thats never happened before..but I don’t think I’ve ever let it sit that long at idle

Edit…I realized the field was not secure on the generator end when I did test so will try again when battery charges
Edit,.meant to say I have a type generator not a b

Edi…so I completed field test again getting0..5 vo,t then up to 1.2 volts when grounding field wire removed from regulator..no idea what’s going on