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KH114
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Joined: August 22, 2005
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Location: Kent WA
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 Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: Generator |
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| Replaced the generator in my 73 standard, ran fine. Parked it for about a week. Now the generator light comes on, and when I checked the generator, sparks are coming out of the opening where the copper coil and the brush touches it. Wired exactly the way the old one came out and polarized it by grounding the field wire and touching the battery wire to the D+ wire at the rgulator. Any suggestions? |
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rumplestilskin
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Joined: January 13, 2007
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Location: los banos,CA
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| u are getting a ground some where . I.G.the wire or the coil is touching a piece of metal it should not be |
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Bugs'n'Pugs
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Joined: July 18, 2004
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Location: Charleston, South Carolina USA
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: Speedy Jim's Aircooled Electrical Hints |
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| Replaced the generator in my 73 standard, ran fine. Parked it for about a week. Now the generator light comes on, and when I checked the generator, sparks are coming out of the opening where the copper coil and the brush touches it. Wired exactly the way the old one came out and polarized it by grounding the field wire and touching the battery wire to the D+ wire at the rgulator. Any suggestions? |
Have you been to Speedy Jim's Aircooled Electrical Hints?
Testing the Generator:
Polarizing the Generator:
It sounds like you did everything corrently. 
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73 Bug
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Location: Bay Area, Calif.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:21 am Post subject: |
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I have a 73 standard and I'm sure it has an alternator, not generator. The way I've always determined the difference:
Generator right above belt pully.
Alternator is above and to the right of the belt pully. |
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