[T3] The Republican Regulator

Keith Park topnotch at nycap.rr.com
Fri Apr 27 18:35:29 PDT 2012


Ahh built in eh?   I suspect that they are all that way now days...

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Brian Fye
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 9:08 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] The Republican Regulator

Keith, if you go to a nipondenso alt, you won't need/use a VR ever again!

On 4/27/12, Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Aha. But so long as I can compensate by changing spring tension I could
> breath life back into an old regulator for some time... on the old Bosch
> units the contacts all look pretty good, perhaps some wear but nothing
that
> looks too bad.
>
> Keith
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
> [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Adney
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:08 AM
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] The Republican Regulator
>
> On 26 Apr 2012 at 22:54, Keith Park wrote:
>
>> That would indicate that the spring tension is drifting correct?  Perhaps
>> from cheap spring material.  I may then be better off using a good used
>> Bosch, adjusted to where it should be voltage wise.
>
> Wear of the relay contacts would be another possibility. That also
> changes the "dead band" between hi and lo. It's a 3-state system, so
> the mid state is important.
>
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