Recent content by cswiger

Just to follow up and put this to bed. My experience echos the experience of Barry1. I exchanged the new regulator for another new one from the same place. After installing it I still had no charging voltage to the battery. I ordered the regulator that he showed in his post from Amazon and...

Thanks for the help everyone. Barry 1, that Briggs and Stratton regulator looks like a awesome idea. I could buy 10 of those for what the other one cost me!

I understand that a 40 year old regulator will fail, and that is what's in the picture. My problem is the brand new one that doesn't work. In most of my experience if you have two apparent failures of old parts and the replacement parts, you have probably missed something in the diagnostics. I...

I'm guessing this is solid state.

Okay, it looks like the new regulator is not working. I backprobed four of the six wires from the regulator side of the plug to their landing. Those four wires correspond to the output wires from the dynamo, the positive wire from the battery and the ground wire. I first verified continuity with...

Not yet. I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I assume I will have 15-30 volts at the wires from the dynamo and should have 13.5-14.5 on the wire to the starter/battery wire. I don't know what I should see on the other 3 wires.

Okay, update now. Put on a new regulator from Hoye/ASAP tractor parts. Didn't change anything. Any suggestions on next troubleshooting steps? Looking at my wiring diagram it looks like I have two wires from the dynamo to the regulator, one wire that goes to the battery connection on the starter...

Thanks again for the help. I will post my findings when I make my next trip. Probably in 2-3 weeks.

Thanks again for all the help!

Just as a follow up, is there a fuse link or fused wire in the circuit to the voltage regulator? I have a manual from Hoye Parts but it's with the tractor 300 miles from me right now. Trying to be prepared for when I get back to it.

Thanks again for the help, I checked the generator/Dyno output and I get 15-27 volts AC depending on engine rpm. Any suggestions on a replacement voltage regulator?

Thank you Winston, your advice has always been helpful for me. I will check it tomorrow!

Help! I have a yanmar 2310D that I think has quit charging. A couple of months ago we had cold weather that I think killed the battery. I needed to start the tractor and used jumper cables to start it. During the process the jumper cables got connected in reverse polarity. After getting it...