8N 12V Conversion

I live in a small farming town in Texas and we are fortunate to have an outstanding alternator repair shop. The fellow their told me the same thing that the earlier self-exciting regulators were bad about not exciting except at really high RPM. He also said that there is now one that excites at a low RPM. So, I"m going to bring the alternator to him and he"ll test it to see how quickly it excites.

As far as the brand of alternator goes, I"m not sure. I don"t have it in front of me but I"ll check & report back.

I'm NOT a fan of the deceptively desirable 1-wire tricky converted alternator 'cuz they don't start charging until about MAX tractor engine rpms.

I am NOT an alternator repairman, I DON'T KNOW iff'n you can re-bas*ardize yer tricky 1-wire alternator by simply re-wiring it without replacing the solid-state guttz.

Its yer tractor, convert it ennyways that pleases you, and iff'n you let the smoke out, you'll know it can't be done..... ..Dell, a 12-volt advocate for the right reason

As I mentioned my alternator repairman is going to test it to see how quickly the thing excites and we'll go from there. He knows the trick to modify the internal regulator so it can be wired in a 3-way config.

I have seen '1' wire Gm's that were hooke dup as 3 wire, and either worked the same.. or better.. Sometimes you get units with a difficult to remove cap over the spade plugs.

Post what ya got..

Soundguy