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Guys,
I was troubleshooting what I thought was a tach problem and turned out to be an open field coil. Just thought I should relay this bit to all of you who may be perplexed with a similar situation.
Field coils shouldn't blow out. So I removed it and found that I had caused the trouble myself. Way back when I had originally removed it to polish the cover, I re-installed it without paying enough attention to the routing of the wires inside the cover.
The very tip of the rotor was rubbing on the field coil wires. It took five months and 10,000 mi, but the rotor finally ate through the insulation of the green field wire, cut it clean through and viola! - no field, no output, dead tach, etc. etc.
All is well now, though, I soldered and shrink wrapped the wires. And, of course, they are routed correctly now.
Sometimes the strangest things are actually true!
Randy
I was troubleshooting what I thought was a tach problem and turned out to be an open field coil. Just thought I should relay this bit to all of you who may be perplexed with a similar situation.
Field coils shouldn't blow out. So I removed it and found that I had caused the trouble myself. Way back when I had originally removed it to polish the cover, I re-installed it without paying enough attention to the routing of the wires inside the cover.
The very tip of the rotor was rubbing on the field coil wires. It took five months and 10,000 mi, but the rotor finally ate through the insulation of the green field wire, cut it clean through and viola! - no field, no output, dead tach, etc. etc.
All is well now, though, I soldered and shrink wrapped the wires. And, of course, they are routed correctly now.
Sometimes the strangest things are actually true!
Randy