62 Valiant 200 / 170 cuin /6 - Odd smell - then dead battery

gsoco said
...I also measured the regulator resistance from ign to field poles and found the regulator has an open ...I have another regulator that shows a resisitance value other than infinity...
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I can't help with a solid state VR. And if its this one, I don't have one like it to check.
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IF it acted exactly like a points type then it would show very low resistance from ign to field.
But I don't know if with the transistorized one whether the switch is normally closed.