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G'day All,
I have a beautiful 1938 ES2 arriving at the end of this week which I bought off an elderly fellow who has spent the last years restoring. He has opted not to engage the Dynamo and just has it mounted there as it is only for running lights and horn via battery of course. He has never actually ridden it anywhere other than his street so I guess he never worried about it. Just charged his battery with charger to make sure all worked. He said he doesn't know a lot about electrickery so didn't want to engage dynamo in case regulator and cut out unit were faulty. Apparently a lot of Norton owners don't bother with it if they are only doing club runs. I plan on getting it all working. I like things to work the way they were designed to. My knowledge on electrickery is also fairly basic. Now if I test the voltage at the battery terminals after starting and giving a slight increase in revs voltage should sit somewhere around mid 13's ? I can then assume it's working, right ?
1. How can I tell if regulator is cutting out when it is supposed to and not overcharging battery ?
2. If it's not charging whats the way to test to see if it's the dynamo, regulator or cut out switch ?
Thanks, Glenn
I have a beautiful 1938 ES2 arriving at the end of this week which I bought off an elderly fellow who has spent the last years restoring. He has opted not to engage the Dynamo and just has it mounted there as it is only for running lights and horn via battery of course. He has never actually ridden it anywhere other than his street so I guess he never worried about it. Just charged his battery with charger to make sure all worked. He said he doesn't know a lot about electrickery so didn't want to engage dynamo in case regulator and cut out unit were faulty. Apparently a lot of Norton owners don't bother with it if they are only doing club runs. I plan on getting it all working. I like things to work the way they were designed to. My knowledge on electrickery is also fairly basic. Now if I test the voltage at the battery terminals after starting and giving a slight increase in revs voltage should sit somewhere around mid 13's ? I can then assume it's working, right ?
1. How can I tell if regulator is cutting out when it is supposed to and not overcharging battery ?
2. If it's not charging whats the way to test to see if it's the dynamo, regulator or cut out switch ?
Thanks, Glenn