Subject: RE: Even more eldo dash wiring help- Thanks all-
Author: brian c
Date: Feb 10, 2005, 8:23 AM
Post ID: 1718367763
Thanks Paul, Matt, Karl-
The bike was not running and had not been run in some time- and person I
bought it from had no idea of history- so it probably was an existing
condition. The bike runs now but obviously is not charging and I still
have to wire the lights- and although it is running I am skeptical on
the condition of the barrels, it was in a garage the whole time, but had
not been run in something like 12 years. I let penetrating fluid sit in
the cylinders overnight, changed the fluids points and plugs, wired the
coils and starter, hand turned the engine a few times and then it fired
right up.
I don't have an extra regulator at the moment, so I will have to go pick
one up, if I remember correctly from my loop days in the past there is
an old bosch VW regulator that is a direct replacement.
Brian
Paul P. Linn wrote:
Brian, As both Karl and Matt have said, try replacing the regulator next. It's a cheap enough part and I believe everyone should have a spare with them at all times. It highly unlikely that the generator is shorted itself, but carefully check your wiring connections to it to make sure none are shorting. With a short present there can be enough current draw thru the light to try spin the gen and that's why the fuse kept blowing till you raised the amperage on the fuse. Be careful with this as you could now melt the fuse block as many have done in the past. Knock on wood, I have never had to polarize my generator to get it to charge. Part that's ALWAYS failed has been the regulator. Was the bike running before you started rebuilding it? Paul 73 Eldo "Elvira" 949 conversion 74 Eldo "Daisy" undergoing a full police restoration -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Moore [mailto:moore-@cablespeed.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:09 AM To: Loopfram-@topica.com Subject: Re: Even more eldo dash wiring help- narrowed down Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Show your pride with a free* USA T-shirt. Click here to confirm your address. http://click.topica.com/caac8udb1dfltb6GIoLa/PermissionData ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian, you might need to make sure you polarize the generator and the voltage regulator. Or your generator or regulator has a short. Does it have the original or an old regulator? A lot of them will fuse one of the contacts together, if forget which one, but maybe that is causing a direct short, which would pull current through the light circuit and make the gen spin (maybe...i'm not an electrician or EE) A generator is almost the same as an electric motor, in fact some older lawn tractors used the generator as a starter. If you drive an electric motor, it will produce voltage. So also, if you put a sufficient voltage across the generator, it will spin like a motor. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "brian c" <bcoo-@creedon.com> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: Even more eldo dash wiring help- narrowed down Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a FREE* Portable Satellite Radio - yours to keep! Click Here! http://click.topica.com/caac8uyb1dfltbOfdmla/PortableSatellite Radio Promotion ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, so when I got home tonight I began eliminating wires one by one- and it is the red wire going to the generator- now here is a weird/bad thing- I put in a higher amp fuse so it would not short immediately and when I did this and put the white/black light from the fuse block(power) to the generator light with the red wire comign from the generaTOR it started spinning the generator- I have never seEn that before, I double(and triple)checked the genrator and regulator wires and everything seems fine- ANY CLUES? Thanks for all the help so far. Brian Paul P. Linn wrote:
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