Anyone Running A Mechanical Voltage Regulator 67 Dart 273 2bbl

Mattax said

In the first part I was talking about visually watching the points fluttering.
Yea sure a scope on the voltage would be cool. The you could see if that syncs with the current on the ammeter. A bit more work for guys like us that haven't used a scope in bizzlion years. LOL.

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There is a delicate balance of relay frequency vs ripple. Too fast, contacts fail to break fully, and sizzle with erosion. Slowing down rate, done by increasing ripple, voltage difference (hysteresis) between "ON" and "OFF". Electronic switch, a transistor is much faster and cleaner switching. Immune to vibration, spider nests, mechanical wear, point erosion, spring weakening...

The field current is what controls magnetic flux of N-S-N-S.... rotating, past stator coils for generation. The field is a large inductor, it stores current, regulation action increases and decreases as a sawtooth ramp, smooth, small change compared to magnitude. It is difficult to see with electronic regulator, need to expand view.