Exciting my altenator? One for the sparkies!
Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006 at 21:01
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Stuart
Hi all again, I can't remember how to make an altenator self excite so I can use it for my generator. Can someone help??
For those of you that helped me last night with with my generator/ compressor thank you. I finished the altenator pullies today and gave it a
test run and it works a treat. I had only 12.27 volts in the main battery of my Cruiser (time for a new one) and even with the headlights on the little 4 stroke was able to get the altenator to pump 13.8- 14 volts into the battery at just above it's idle. When I turned the lights off the volts jumped to 14.3 volts exactly. Looks like my gearing up the altenator about 5 to 1 was OK. You could hear the load come onto the engine but it made little difference to it and the govenor works
well to keep the revs even.
Tomorrow i will start on the compressor part of the job.
Cheers for now!!