Increasing Generator to 8 volts

Thanks

BUT....as long as your starter and battery cables are in good condition you shouldn’t need an 8 volt battery in the first place. A healthy 6 volt battery will easily spin your higher compression A engine. Often a “slow crank” problem is traced to the battery cables and connections. If the cables are original, good chance they have high resistance from internal (hidden) corrosion. And if the cables have been replaced, many times the replacement cables are several wire gages too small. If either of these situations apply, replacing existing cables with new ones of the correct gage can work wonders.

Bottom line is it’s generally more prudent to spend $$ getting the cranking system back into good order than to spend the same $$ on an 8 volt battery “band aid fix”.

But that's just my OPINION. I've been wrong before...after all, I'm married.

To charge a battery, seems to me that designers set the regulator so that the battery gets about 20% more voltage than it's rating and this extra voltage is what pushes currrent into it at some reasonable rate. If the regl was set to exact batt volts, it would take an infinitely long time to achieve full charge. So a regulator for a 6 v system is set to 7.2 volts as is a 12v set to 14.

Then the current part of the regulator is set to some reasonable current 20 to 40 amps max depending on voltage of system and away we go.

Granted, the generator could go nuts and supply lots of V's and A's but that is not what you want if you want the system to survive.

Sooooo ooooo how ya gonna cram current into an 8 volt battery with an energy source set to a max of 7.2 volts?

Mark