Generator wiring Q.

Small question... I have to rebuild the generator wiring today. There is only one wire left from the POs shity attempt at an alternator conversion. Is about 2mm thick. Do I need that thick a wire from the generator to the reg box and to the battery?

How thick should the wire be?

thanks.

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Eduardo Kaftanski
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D+ from GEN to REG and to battery should be 6.0 mm DF can be 1.0mm

Speedy Jim

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Speedy Jim

6.0mm is huge! ok... what gauge would that be? (in case local hardware store is non metric?)

(thanks)

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Eduardo Kaftanski

Between 10Ga and 8Ga.

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Jim

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Speedy Jim

thanks. back to the store it is... the cable the alt coversion had between the reg box and the alt was marked 14 AWG 0.6KV . Too small, I presume to reuse. The one from the reg box to the bat looks like its at least 6mm.

will try and buy all new cable if I can find it tomorrow...

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Eduardo Kaftanski

On my bug it's a 10 guage wire. I don't know the thickness of that in mm. But the crimp-on connector that fits has a yellow sleve, and that barely fits.

When you make crimped on connectors, tin the wire first, that means heat the wire with a soldering iron, add enough solder to make the copper wire all silver. Try to not burn the insulation. Maybe hold that with plyers, or wrap a piece of soft metal to keep that cool. If there is any extra solder on the wire (won't fit into connector), while the wire is hot, give it a tap or a shake (wear safety glasses), this will fling any excess molten metal off the wire, and into your face. When the wire is cool, slide some heat shrink over the wire. Crimp on the connector, then heat the connector enough to melt the solder in the wire. Maybe add some solder to the connection if needed. This will make sure the wire and connector are soldered together. When cool, slide down the heat shrink over the connector, and heat the heat-shrink to shrink. I usually heat and remove the plastic sleve from the connector before I crimp that on. YMMV, be careful when soldering, especially when flinging hot solder. Be sure to wear safety glasses, try to not fling solder on you or your friends.

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Michael Kelly

Hi,

I installed the reg box in the firewall behind the fan housing, where is not likely to get wet or hot and wired it according to the diagram on the box it came in.

There was no drawing showing where the gen light should connect to, but from type2.com wiring diagrams, a terminal 61 was mentioned.

My box said D+/61 so I wired it there. Works very well and seems to charge the bat, so I think I did good. Jim? :)

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Eduardo Kaftanski

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