Re: [Amc-list] generators

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

The other thing is if concerned with low charge below 2000 rpm, put in the biggest battery you can fit!
It will get you thru the low speed traffic, besides, what's in the car to kill a battery? Unless you add tech toys to draw on the system, I doubt you'll ever kill it!
  As far as batteries go I regularly fudge up to a bigger battery. I usually take some measurements and then find the largest [as in amp hour/cranking amps] battery I can get that fits. Generally the cost increase is minimal.
  The American I fitted with a spiral cell as it is trunk mounted. It was $125 about 7 years ago now, and it is a marvelous little bugger, doesn't go dead or corrode. I will be replacing it with another one when it fails...

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

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From: Peter Marano <PMarano@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I think your assumption is incorrect, I have limited experience with 
> generators, but I have never seen one 'drop dead'.  Generators let the 
> alternators do that.  Replace the brushes, oil the bushings, keep a 
> spare regulator with you and enjoy trouble free driving without diodes 
> and 'transistor' regulators!
> 
> Could you build a tube type regulator?
> 
> 
> Peter Marano
> Kenosha WI
> 
> Message: 12
> 
> >Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:37:35 -0700
> >From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [Amc-list] generators
> >To: AMC List <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >Hey anyone know much about the Delco Remy generators AMC used? I know how 
> >they work and can rebuild one (commutators and carbon brushes and all 
> >that).
> >
> >Are there many different types? The American has a 30 amp model. Do mounts 
> >and pulleys vary much? Do internal parts (bearing/bushing, brushes) vary 
> >much?
> >
> >Reason I'm asking is, I'm trying to chase up a spare, to pre-rebuild for 
> >when this one drops dead, as I assume it will. Regulator too. Wondering 
> >about how wide I can search for donors.
> >
> >I know the "sensible" thing to do is dump it and stick in an alternator, 
> >but for some perverse reason I'd like to keep the gennie. Maybe 
> >hair-pulling maintenance will change my mind later.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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