Bob Melville ---- I need your HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU

1 - Install the smallest pulley you can find on the alternator. There's no danger of overspeeding it on a Cub, and the smaller pulley will spin the alternator fast enough at low speed for it to begin to charge.

2 - Recommend staying away from self-exciting (so-called "single wire") alternators. They are more expensive, and you may have trouble spinning it fast enough on startup to get it to begin to charge. 2 and 3 wire setups turn on at a much lower RPM than will the single wire units.

Punch below for wiring diagrams for 1 and 3 wire Delco alternators. Note: If your alternator is not a Delco 10SI, the wiring may be different!

• wiring diagrams

Thanks

You can also substitute a suitable diode or resistor for the warning light. Or you can do as I've done and mount the lamp holder hidden someplace up under the hood.

And from my perspective the lamp provides a convenient warning should the alternator fail or the drive belt break - useful when non-gage watching operators (which includes about everyone but myself) run my tractors…

Didn't mean to barge in on the question addressed to you. Just didn't catch the fact that someone had addressed the question to you until I hit the send button.

From now on I will have my coffee before I start looking over the discussion board.

My humble apologies,
Fred - Kansas

One of the benefits of an alternator is that they start producing current at a lower RPM than a generator will. As far as I know, alternators have a self-exciter built into them and do not need to be manually excited.

Luckily for me there is a company in town that manufactures 6 volt alterators and I have bought one for my H, which fits right under the hood.

The company does a lot of business with the folks at the Hollywood movie studios where they use a lot of vintage automobiles that are not run enough at speed to keep the batteries up with generators.

Several of the farmers in the area have put the 6 volt alternators on their older equipment, which do more idling than they do running at a higher RPM.

Nothing wrong with a generator if you're plowing all day, but for short runs and lots of lower RPM activity, the alternator is the way to go.

Fred - Kansas

I just did an Internet search on their name and there are a couple of articles about them listed there that you can read.

Good luck,
Fred - Kansas