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Re: TR6: Alternator, fixed?

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net, gernot.vonhoegen@stir.ac.uk, DUHART@symbol.com
Subject: Re: TR6: Alternator, fixed?
From: John Duhart <DUHART@symbol.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 10:06:13 -0400
TYPE-O

>>> John Duhart <DUHART@symbol.com> 04/07 9:51 AM >>>
>
>Hey All,
>
> OK the Lucas Alternator saga may be resovled.  My filnal problem may of been 
>the miss >wiring of the Voltage regulator.  I have a four-wire regulator.  
>When I read the artical on >VTR I thought it said you could hook the red or 
>white wires to '+' or 's'.  Well I hooked the >white to '+' and the red to 
>'s'.  Now IGN light when the ignition was in the ON positiion.  So 
                                                      ^^^^ should be NO, not 
'Now'

>I finally figured what the hell and reversed the wires.  PRESTO, the IGN light 
>now come >on with the ignition in the on position.  

> OK, now for the strange part.  With the engine running the IGN light still 
>glows.  Not as >bright as when the engine is not running, but it is on.  I 
>placed a volt-meter across the >battery with the engine running, and the 
>voltage was rising.  It was at 12.4 and moving up.  >If I reved the engine the 
>voltage would jump to 12.8 and move up from there.  Before I >started all of 
>the I measured the batt voltage with the batt disconnected, it was 12.25.  
>>After letting the engine running for 10-15 minutes and reving it a few times, 
>I >disconnected the battery and masured it again.  it was at 12.34.  Also as I 
>reved the >engine the IGN light would dim, but never go out completely.

> OK, I not that the current can flow through the IGN light in eiter direction. 
> My question is, >is the IGN light on with my engine running because the 
>alternator is charging my battery?  >Opinions please.

Later,
JHD IV


                            
 

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