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Re: [GMCnet] OK, next Onan question [message #322725 is a reply to message #322718] Sun, 27 August 2017 08:16 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Mr ERFisher is currently offline  Mr ERFisher   United States
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Use this to eliminate the alternator
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:44 PM Ken Burton wrote:

> The generator has lot of non-standard wiring. I think I have found most
> of it. The last (I hoped) problem was would not start for either start
> switch. It would crank. I found a damaged molex connector pin and
> repaired that after a couple of hours of diagnosis time. Then it would not
> stop.
> I found a wiring error at the disconnected regulator. This 1976 so the
> regulator is not necessary.
>
> I have been running 5 to 9 to get the pump and ignition running. With
> that pin repaired it would start / run and not stop. That took me several
> hours with the help of one of the airport employees to find. We have had
> just about every friend and airport employee over there including the
> airport
> manager over there helping.
>
> Now we have the start and immediately stop issue, which is indicative of
> no alternator (30VAC) to the board or oil pressure. I was probing pin 8 to
> pin 11 and found the 30VAC missing and blew the last fuse that I had.
>
> So off to the store to buy some more fuses. By the time I got back it was
> dark and starting to rain. So we quit for the night.
>
> What I can not find anywhere in the documentation is how or where the
> alternator wires run from the ring of coils behind the flywheel to the
> board.
> The parts manual has a picture of the coils and 3 long wires coming out of
> it.
>
> Were do those wires go and what route do they take getting there?
>
> Where do those wires attach? The wiring diagram implies that they go on
> the non-existant regulator.
>
> Ken B..
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> Ken Burton - N9KB
> 76 Palm Beach
> Hebron, Indiana
>
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