gjmsd
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2010
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- 83
I'm finally finishing up my project boat and took it out for a test run. The motor doesn't seem to be charging. I look at the wiring diagrams, older forum threads and understand the fundamentals of the system, but when I started taking readings from the components, I get real strange data. Measuring the voltage across the stator when the engine is running seems to jump all over the place. My understanding is it should be around 16-20 VAC since there is no regulator listed in the wiring diagram. the voltage on my digital meter shows >130VAC and it jumps around. I thought this might be because there was no load on it (the rectifier was disconnected) so I connected up the rectifier and same thing. Measuring the voltage across the rectifier showed very high DC voltage in the range of the AC voltage I was seeing. Am I doing something wrong? None of these voltages seem correct.