[T3] Electrical questions

[Sean Bartnik]

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>> 7.5V was only at D+, I was curious to see what was coming into the VR from the generator.  I never saw higher than ~7.01V on the B+ side of the regulator with the engine at high rpm.
> 
> I don't know why there would be that much voltage drop across the 
> voltage regulator, unless you had a lot of load on the generator at 
> the time. Once you're above cutoff, the voltage regulator should look 
> like a shunt with a max voltage drop of about 0.2 V. At low load, I'd 
> expect less than 0.1 V of drop.

This was quite low load, only the ignition and the dome lamp.  Maybe I need to open up the VR and see if things need cleaning?
I believe it is the variode type though I’m still not 100% sure I understand the difference.  The p/n on it is 311 903 801 X.

-Sean