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jrtrebor
 
Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
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Ariens Project #4
Original Message Oct 15, 2011 9:35 pm |
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Finished redoing the dash on my blower The new Honda 13hp engine I got to repower the blower (again) was in great shape. Has the electric start and a 10A charging coil. But it didn't have any of the wiring. No key switch, no rectifier, nothing. All the factory stuff is way out of my budget so It had to go old school. With an ignition on/off switch. (The old one that was still on the blower) And a starter push button. Which meant that I had to rewire the whole ignition system from the engine to the dash. That is how things got started. Then being the way I am, I couldn't just run new wire and leave it at that. What's the fun it that. Anyway it's finished. Just need to get a new impeller bearing and flanges and I can put the whole blower back together and mate it to the tractor. ![](<center> <a href="http://s841.photobucket.com/albums/zz334/rjtrebor/blower%20dash/?action=view&current=8b9b2eec.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz334/rjtrebor/blower%20dash/8b9b2eec.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <br/><br/> </center>) 
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carlb
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Re: Ariens Project #4
Reply #51 Nov 8, 2011 4:46 pm |
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it is very difficult to get a good reading on a charging system without some type of load or buffer such as a battery or light. You may be seeing very high voltage with no load but it will normally drop substancially when a load is applied. I would hook up the light to term 1 and the battery to the term 2 Then take a reading off both terminals both with the light on and the light off. Voltage reading at an idle really isn't necessary as it will usually be low. This is how i would hook it up. The worst that can happen is you burn out the bulb which i doubt or you undercharge the battery which wont really hurt anything. If this is the best that you can achive with this regulator that is what i would do. You may have to put the battery on a trickle charge after use if the battery gets too low. If you don't have to use the light you should not have any problems. Good Luck
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jrtrebor
Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
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Re: Ariens Project #4
Reply #53 Nov 9, 2011 8:24 pm |
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I would hook up the light to term 1 and the battery to the term 2
Then take a reading off both terminals both with the light on and the light off.
Voltage reading at an idle really isn't necessary as it will usually be low.
This is how i would hook it up. The worst that can happen is you burn out the bulb which i doubt or you undercharge the battery which wont really hurt anything.
If this is the best that you can achive with this regulator that is what i would do.
Good Luck Well, I hooked up term 1 to the starter solenoid. And term 2 directly to the battery + post. Took reading off the battery + post @ idle 14.6V @ idle with the light on 13.3V @ full throttle 14.6v @ full throttle with the light on 14.3V That would be a good reading. I guess for some reason I needed to have both terminals hooked up. Don't have any idea why that would be. But I believe that 14.5V @ FT is an acceptable reading. Yes? Checked today the light is 35W
This message was modified Nov 9, 2011 by jrtrebor
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