Posted by Justin-PA on May 28, 2010 at 18:47:28 from (108.1.92.80):
Well guys I'm officially a bonehead. Today I was taking your suggestions to clean up all the wire connections related to the generator and cutout. Good news is the generator brushes and commutator looked good inside and I found an adjustment screw on the cutout which I believe I could have adjusted to make it work better.
Problem is...when I put it all back together I mistakenly mixed up the wires going to F and GEN on the generator. So essentially the output of the cutout was going to the F side and wire to F was on the GEN. I had started it up and was running it 1/2 speed, jumped the cutout and when I did that the ammeter pegged negative and the jump wire got real hot. I shut her all down and I think I saw a bit of smoke out of the generator.
So...did I screw up the generator now??? I put all the wires back the right way and I'm not getting any charging at all now.
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