On Jun 25, 6:06*pm, curls wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:11:46 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:10:12 +0100, curls wrote:

I tried it with an 11 watt flourescent handlamp. Depending on how the
genny is feeling, it varies from nothing to full brightness.

Flourescent is a "nasty" load again like a motor and 11W isn't a big load.
Don't you have a nice tungsten lamp you can plug in? I suspect it might be
the regulator that has packed in. Have a dig about on the web, they aren't
rocket science maybe just a chunky diode and a capacitor. Probably a
single sealed unit but possibly available as a generic spare.

Same behaviour with a 40watt table lamp as with the fluorescent and the drill.

It turns out the armature could be separated from the crankshaft so I took the lot apart and took a
photo.http://tinyurl.com/5nelwt

There are three pairs of wires from the stator. One pair goes to the 6uF capacitor which you can see
in the top middle of the black plastic piece. Another pair goes to the 230v socket, with the live
going through a reset switch first. The remaining two wires go to a 12v socket for battery charging.
And that's it.

The CBB61 capacitor seems to be only available from China, though there's a similar one on ebay, but
that's half the price of a new genny.

6uF 250vac caps are used in fluorescent lights, motors, etc, and cost
2 or 3 squid max. From any tron component supplier. But thats
immaterial until you've found out whats wrong.


NT