Re: new fangled voltage regulator

Posted by fredkanter On 2016/11/28 12:49:05

Car manufacturers have many different OE part numbers and specs for what seem to be identical items, examples are shocks, coil and leaf springs and regulators. Aftermarket manufacturers such as DELCO, a GM company, use the same part # for a front shock fitting a 51-55 Packard, a 49-54 Chev and a 53-62 Corvette. and in fact they work just fine on all the vehicles.

As cars get older, aftermarket parts books tend to "generalize" more and amperage settings for regulators become broader, thus fewer part #'s fit more vehicles. Often a high amp unit is replaced by a lower amp unit as the high amp unit is engineered for worst case driving such as a 3 hour traffic jam with the lights and AC on

We do not see ever running out of regulators, we have 1000's in stock, are able to buy more NOS and NORS constantly, a shipment of 7 NOS is expected soon.

Reliability?? We can't recall when we had a defective unit returned although we get them back saying "it won't work". They test fine so the cars problem is elsewhere.