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Jedi Knight
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Got car running and idling reasonably well now, but generator issues remain. Red light glowing brightly. Generator was rebuilt by knowledgeable friend who has since passed away. Took it to an old-fashioned generator shop that quickly checked on it on his test machine and indicated it was charging. Took home, installed in car, and still same issue. Using test manual, I started to do diagnosis. Test 1, both leads off generator, and voltmeter on D get reading about 3.3 V at "speed", which suggests armature and brush connections are OK according to manual. Next test, jumper F and D terminals and check voltage at D to ground. Getting reading about .2 V or little less, which seems to indicate grounded field coils or field connection. The F connection seems a bit loose at generator. Might this be where the issue is? Any suggestions are most welcome. I will take generator out again, and happy to take to shop to have him look at it again, but just wondering how I can bench check to see if it is something I can easily fix myself as it is a bit of a drive to the shop. Cheers, Mike