Recent content by Triple Jim

This can't be a short circuit problem or he'd either have a breaker tripping or wires burning. It must be an intermittently open circuit or partially open circuit.

Welcome to the board, mopardude! Frequency depends on engine speed. If it's putting out 50 Hz, it's running at 1,500 rpm instead of the 1,800 it takes for 60 Hz. Solve that problem first and then see what the voltage is doing. Have you adjusted the governor speed with the black knob at the...

Those screws don't look very corroded... they just look a little discolored. I don't think I'd be concerned about them at all.

Thank you for the opportunity!

The exciter armature and the diodes generate the current for the main generator's rotating field. Those parts make up the rotating assembly. The exciter field is stationary, and the regulator controls the current to it. The exciter's output from its rotating armature and diodes are connected...

Just for reference, what are the part numbers of the diodes?

40 foot long school busses and motor homes often have the exhaust going all the way to the rear. If you choose a pipe diameter like 2" or 2-1/2", I don't think you'd have a problem. As the gasses cool, they take up less volume anyway. But going out the roof and aiming the pipe the way you...

Did you have a chance to test them?

I didn't mean at the posts, I meant on the actual posts themselves. If the battery voltage, measured on the posts, dropped that low, I expect the batteries themselves have a problem, in addition to other possible problems with the system. If the batteries are in good condition and fully...

If this is really true I think you'd have some other symptoms, like smoking battery cables. Did you measure this at the actual battery posts? How about now that you're cleaned the battery connections?

After a couple hours it will probably come up to 26+ volts, but you should verify that if you want to be sure the charging system is working.

What's the DC voltage at the output of the regulator with the engine running? Keep in mind that the regulator output is only about 7 amps, so it can take quite a bit of time to bring the battery up to 26+ volts. It's possible that a dirty fuse holder or other problem caused the fuse to get...

Did you touch the meter leads together and read the ohms, then subtract that from the value you got for the transformer windings? Reading very low resistances like you're doing is a little tricky.

If it were mine, I think I'd pull off each plug and spray it and its receptacle with DeoxIT D5 and reconnect.

Something inside the genset. That wire does not carry generator output current to the output lugs.