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Dynamo question

  • 18-04-2006 11:00pm
    #1
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭


    I have in my posession a 1968 Ford 4000 Tractor (not a car, but I suspect there is little difference)

    Today the battery/charging light didn't go off as it should, and the voltage across the lucas dynamo is only 1.5v with the engine opened 3/4 of the way and about 0.4v on idle.

    The dynamo is original, and the tractor has been laid up for the past 10 years in a shed, so I presume it just has done its bit and I need to get it rewound. Would I be right?

    Would it be a good idea to convert the tractor to run an alternator instead?


Comments

  • #2
    greglo23
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    you probably need a new set of brushes and the com cleaned. leave the dynamo on and forget the alternator unless you are going to be fitting a lot of new electrical equipment. you can fix a dynamo at the side of the road but an alternator is not so easy. another problem with alternators is you have to remove them when electric welding which is a common thing when you have an old tractor :D


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