On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:51:19 -0600, Tony Hwang
wrote:

dpb wrote:
On 06/13/2015 4:50 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
...

Your adjustment depends on engine RPM too. Time is money, how much time
are you going to spend(waste) B4 deciding to upgrade to alternator.

Actually at the Delco-specified generator RPM...that's easy to do with a
manual throttle (see, old vehicles _do_ have advantages ).

As far as the money goes, at the moment time is no problem...when
harvest gets here, that'll be something different, but for now
planting's done, we got another 3" rain night before last and it's a
lull. I have no intention of spending amount of money at all; it is,
after all, not a mission-critical piece of equipment except during
planting and it is still functional as is; just when have been using it
as recently while cleaning tumbleweeds from the cedar windbreaks it gets
started very frequently and run only very short periods before shut off
again so was having to put the charger on it occasionally. The idea is
to avoid needing to do that, but if'en it doesn't happen, it's still ok.
When used even as the seed tender it gets enough miles between starts
it doesn't have the issue...

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Then consider this, maybe the regulator in the truck is too old causing
repeated adjusttment. Trying a brand new unit is an idea.
The operating tegime is NOY optimal for a generator - an alternator
would do a MUCH better job as it charges more at low speeds so would
charge the battery more quickly and more fully than even a totally
adequately set up generator (which is one reason alternators took over
so completely)