Monday, September 6, 2010

Alternator Upgrade - Electrical

Wires are run, test fired with an added panel light as exciter and it works but I need to rev the engine a bit to get it to start charging and turn the light out. Not sure why.

Addendum: Two issues. One, not enough ballast from the miniature bulb. Need a resistor. Two, alt may not be in top shape since it was run on the '49er for some time. Added bonus, maybe testing with the trickler charger on is a bad idea? D'oh!

1 comment:

  1. Part of this turned out to be an alternator that was not working properly. The bulb alone would probably have been enough had the alternator been working right. A replacement was done later.

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