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#33427 05/20/2005 5:17 AM | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 31 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 31 | Dues anybody make a 8 vo;t regulator
2 elect shops have messed with my reg and still no luck | | |
#33428 05/20/2005 4:38 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 | I don't know anyone who does but I do remember that years ago some of the marine industry was using 8 volt systems. I bought an 8V Delco battery back in the seventies that was marked as Marine use. I had it in a 2 ton GMC 6V system but it wouldn't stay charged and didn't work as well as a new 6V did. | | |
#33429 05/20/2005 9:19 PM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 288 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 288 | My old Allis Chalmers Tractor ran an 8 volt system.
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#33430 05/21/2005 1:55 AM | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 | You should be able to get one at either a mom & pop parts store or an old auto-electric shop.
Are you trying to replace an 8 volt reg, or are you wanting to tune a 6 volt reg higher?
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#33431 05/21/2005 2:10 AM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,747 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,747 | If you're running an 8-volt battery and trying to charge it with a 6-volt generator and regulator, you're doomed to failure. There's simply no way to make it work. The regulator must be adjusted to 9.5 volts, which overloads the generator, burns out headlights and other bulbs, and requires a ballast resistor to keep the ignition from burning out the points. Either go back to a good 6-volt battery, or do the conversion to 12 volts. I grew up around a shop where we did top-quality electrical work in the 50's, and early 60's, and Dad would never attempt to make an 8-volt system work, even when a local battery manufacturer offered to pay him to set up the electrical system for every customer who bought one of their 8-volt batteries. It just can't be done!
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