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ampa · 07-03-2009, 12:40 PM

I'm almost ready to give up and just use my small battery charger whenever the battery goes dead from a none chargin' system on this ISEKI G-174 compact tractor....surely these tractors are no different from other makes....this was not a problem till I changed out the idiot lamps oil/temp/amp as the only one that lit up when I turned on the key....at the time this was the only lamp that worked... and it always went out after the engine started.... so I assume it was charging at that time...when I installed these three mini mechanical guages... at the same time I also changed out the ignition switch from where I had two switches to one....I'm more concerned with the voltage regulator bein' the problem right now...I left all the wires from the dumb idiot lamps hangin' free for now....I'm thinkin' of removin' them from the wiring harness to cut down on the extra mess of wires that I now have under the dash and also creat less cofussion ... for now there are four wires not connected to anything down from under the dash.... a black wire from the oil sender switch..... one from the temp and one from the alternator/amp lamp...now this 4th wire from the other three is ....yellow with a reddish orange stripe...now I will read off from the diagram pictured in my ISEKI G-174 repair manuel these wires that are connected to and from the voltage regulator in this order.......W/R which is this fourth wire hangin' with the other three wires that are not connected to anything so therefore starting from the voltage regulator this "W/R" is marked as "IGN"....okay the next wire is "Y/W" and the letter "L" and the next one is "B" (black I assume) and is marked with the letter "E" the next is a "Y" and is marked with the letter "N" the next is a "W" marked with the letter "A" the last one is a "W/B" and is marked with the letter "F" which to me I'm thinkin' refers to the Field of the alternator....so just maybe connecting the first wire the white with the reddish orange stripe to my accesories on the new ignition switch which does not have an ignition terminal like old one I changed out... I'm now thinkin' maybe this reddish striped wire sends DC power to the voltage regulator when the key is on... it controls the set of points in the regulator to keep the battery in a charged up condition....this is just my thinkin. as I've tried everything else to get this tractor back up to par and charge like it did before I messed with it......I really need some expert advice/help.....I'm not able to transport this tractor to a shop that will probley charge me an arm and a leg to fix the problem that I maybe created for myself.... I've mentioned everything I've done since it stopped charging... I'm takin' the full blame for screwin' it up.....thanks in advance.......AMPA

07-03-2009, 12:40 PM	#6 (permalink)
ampa Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 75	I have not had any comments or suggestions on a past question..... I'm almost ready to give up and just use my small battery charger whenever the battery goes dead from a none chargin' system on this ISEKI G-174 compact tractor....surely these tractors are no different from other makes....this was not a problem till I changed out the idiot lamps oil/temp/amp as the only one that lit up when I turned on the key....at the time this was the only lamp that worked... and it always went out after the engine started.... so I assume it was charging at that time...when I installed these three mini mechanical guages... at the same time I also changed out the ignition switch from where I had two switches to one....I'm more concerned with the voltage regulator bein' the problem right now...I left all the wires from the dumb idiot lamps hangin' free for now....I'm thinkin' of removin' them from the wiring harness to cut down on the extra mess of wires that I now have under the dash and also creat less cofussion ... for now there are four wires not connected to anything down from under the dash.... a black wire from the oil sender switch..... one from the temp and one from the alternator/amp lamp...now this 4th wire from the other three is ....yellow with a reddish orange stripe...now I will read off from the diagram pictured in my ISEKI G-174 repair manuel these wires that are connected to and from the voltage regulator in this order.......W/R which is this fourth wire hangin' with the other three wires that are not connected to anything so therefore starting from the voltage regulator this "W/R" is marked as "IGN"....okay the next wire is "Y/W" and the letter "L" and the next one is "B" (black I assume) and is marked with the letter "E" the next is a "Y" and is marked with the letter "N" the next is a "W" marked with the letter "A" the last one is a "W/B" and is marked with the letter "F" which to me I'm thinkin' refers to the Field of the alternator....so just maybe connecting the first wire the white with the reddish orange stripe to my accesories on the new ignition switch which does not have an ignition terminal like old one I changed out... I'm now thinkin' maybe this reddish striped wire sends DC power to the voltage regulator when the key is on... it controls the set of points in the regulator to keep the battery in a charged up condition....this is just my thinkin. as I've tried everything else to get this tractor back up to par and charge like it did before I messed with it......I really need some expert advice/help.....I'm not able to transport this tractor to a shop that will probley charge me an arm and a leg to fix the problem that I maybe created for myself.... I've mentioned everything I've done since it stopped charging... I'm takin' the full blame for screwin' it up.....thanks in advance.......AMPA Last edited by ampa; 07-03-2009 at 01:22 PM.