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This's got to be kindergarten stuff for a lot of you, but humor me. Got a new generator from Moss, and an included note in the box states that it's been pre-polarized for negative ground applications. My 1600 has the stock positive ground. Included instructions for re-polarizing the unit are: "With both dynamo terminals disconnected, take a length of 14 gauge wire and connect to the hot terminal on the battery. With the free end, "flash" it briefly on to the field (small) terminal on the dynamo. (Just enough to see a small spark). The wiring harness can now be attached and the dynamo should charge." I'm an idiot when it comes to electricity...which battery terminal is the "hot terminal"? -Rick
 
and save your receipt for that Moss generator, ask Kim
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Thanks, all. So nice & easy to remember that way; hot's opposite ground.
Thanks Mark, for the web site; I can add it to my list of references for things I had to learn how to do, and, by the time life got around to handing me the problem again, I'd forgotten the solution.
Chuck; your comment certainly supports the sinking feeling I got when I opened the box...the casing looks like it was cast in the Dark Ages by some blacksmith wannabe. It brought me back to the fifties when "Made in Japan" meant the most crudely made goods money could buy.
Kim, you there? Chuck suggested I keep the receipt and ask you why.
I think I'll just sit here and brace myself for the inevitable...
 
Well, we're still not sure why it happened, but I lost a new (i-year-old) generator on the way to St. Louis this summer. When Chuck pulled it out, it was totally fried.

Previous to this, we had replaced the coil and the voltage regulator . . . But I haven't been convinced yet which went first and caused what.
 
Kim; do you recall if it had a "Made in India" sticker on it when you got it?
 
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