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Just a quick check...

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If I've just done my Alternator Conversion and started up the car, and the red charging light goes out after about 4 seconds, then my conversion is working right?

And you end up with four disconnected leads? the two from the dynamo, and the two leads on the regulator (F and D?)

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That sounds about right if my memory serves......... so you removed the regulator box, disconnected the internals, connected A to A1 and put it back as a junction box? I think I left the connections to F and D in place but disconnected them internally, then chopped the dynamo connection wires off where they go into the loom at the dynamo end.
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Cam wrote:That sounds about right if my memory serves......... so you removed the regulator box, disconnected the internals, connected A to A1 and put it back as a junction box? I think I left the connections to F and D in place but disconnected them internally, then chopped the dynamo connection wires off where they go into the loom at the dynamo end.
For the time being, I just disconnected F and D - A and A1 are as they were...

I was going to check that everything worked okay with the multimeter, but that, erm... doesn't want to work today :D
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Does it tell you to do that in the instructions that came with the conversion?? I'm sure disconnecting F and D is fine (Field and Dynamo) but I'm not sure about A and A1 being left as they are.........
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Yeah... I used the kit from ESM... It just said leave A1 and A as they are, and disconnect F and D :)
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Post by Cam »

Fair enough then!! I did not have any instructions when I did mine as I did it from bits, I just looked at what was connected to what inside the regulator. That's why I was not certain, but if ESM say leave it then that's what you do!! :D
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Post by Gareth »

That's what it said on my instructions from Bull Motif, I think... I used the instruction sheet as a page-marker some months ago, but can't find it now... :( :lol: if the charging light goes out fairly quickly, then it should be ok. Check the fanbelt tension, and maybe consider raising the idle speed a little to get the unit spinning slightly faster. I've had the kit for a while now, and leaving A1 and A connected at the regulator appears to have done no harm.
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I used the instruction sheet as a page-marker some months ago, but can't find it now...
I dont know Teachers...........................All Brains no common sense :wink:
You probably marked it and gave it back with some homework.
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:lol: Quite possibly, Kevin, quite possibly... :lol: ;)
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Post by Willie »

There should be no need to increase the tickover since an Alternator
has a smaller diameter pulley so it turns over faster than a dynamo.
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Post by Cam »

You could always fit a smaller pulley anyway if you wish (plenty suitable ones in the scrapyards usually). I fitted a bigger one to mine because of the higher revs used.
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