Re: Voltage Regulator advice

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: farna@xxxxxxx
" 
" Heck, I wonder if you could feed the alternator outputs into an old fashioned generator regulator? Probably wouldn't handle anyting over 35A though...

iirc both gens and alts work by controlling the field current, which
in the moto is ~2a, so strictly speaking it wouldn't have to.

but that's moot for me; i don't have anything older than '66 here, and
that's all alt stuff.

" On May 19, 2005 andrew hay wrote:
" 
" > a word of warning - i'm trying to troubleshoot a charging issue on my
" > '68 american [55a moto alt], and i'm on my 3rd napa regulator.  #2
" > worked briefly then went silent.  #1 and #3 never did anything.
" > 
" > my original reg overcharges at 18v.
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