Hello and Thank you for allowing me to join! I recently purchased a Schramm Fordair 60 Air compressor, and for those who are unfamiliar, it is a 1942-ish 239ci ford flathead V8 where 2 cylinders on each bank make air, and two run the engine. It makes 60cfm of air at 100psi, and it runs quite well! The generator is not hooked up. I am trying to fix that, but i'm not sure how to wire it up. It LOOKS like it has a 2 wire voltage regulator mounted on top of the genny. After searching several of these forums and not finding anything on 2 wire regulators, i'm staring to think the 'regulator' is actually a cut out. This genny IS a 3 brush genny. It also says Ford C1 on the body. I noticed the three brushes when I took the genny apart to replace a wire coming out of the body. While I had it apart, I cleaned up the rotor and stator. Speaking of that wire, It really looks like there was only one wire coming out of the genny, but it was ripped off at the body, as you can see in the pictures where I'm pointing. So my thinking is that this one single wire coming out of the genny goes into one side of the box (regulator or cutout? I don't know!) on top and the other end of the box goes to the negative side of the ammeter. But which side does that wire coming out of the genny go to or does it matter? I guess my other questions would be....Is there actually only one wire coming out of the genny? Is that really normal? Where does it go? If that box on top of the genny is a cut out...is there not supposed to be a voltage regulator somewhere? The Yellow Wire in the photo is connected to the negative side of the ammeter, but I don't know where the other end is supposed to go. As this is my first post, i'm not sure if I can post pics yet, so please bear with me! And thanks again for letting me join and for all the helpful tips on the other message threads so far!
Let me suggest you post your generator question over, to hopefully get more views: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forums/the-hokey-ass-message-board.5/
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