Re: Voltage Regulation, Re: 1959 Starflite

[legendre]

A couple appropriate answer(s) are near the bottom of your "Re: 1959 Starflite V-4 50 HP" thread.

As for a make / model, my friend uses the Podtronics regulators on all of the motorcycle systems he updates – and they do make both 6V and 12V negative ground versions. Talk to Bob Kizer at Podtronics and see if they apply to your system, but I don’t see why they wouldn’t.

http://www.podtronics.net/DC_regulator.htm

ETA: I need to mention something. You said you have a Type A generator.. but as I understand it, all of the Podtronics modules are built for Type B systems (B has one side of the field coil tied to ground). Check with Bob, but I’m pretty sure that you will have to modify your gen. to work with his module, if in fact it’s possible to modify it as required. This mod is regularly performed on some or all of the Lucas generators that he commonly sells modules for – my friend just did another one of these last week, and had to make the change.

If your gen. can’t be modded for a Type B system, you may have to look elsewhere.