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Originally Posted by Scott Hamilton
Yes please Phil, if you could post those diagrams.
I do have parts and maintenance manuals which only have the versions with the bushing at the rear of the generator and without the air filter.
How do I go about polarising the magnets ? - as there is no mention of magnets in the parts description, unless you mean the generator pole shoe that the coil is fitted around?
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Scott
The field coils are wound around a hunk of cast iron . The iron needs an amount of residual magnetism in order for the generator to " start up" , once it gets going . This magnetism is polarised in either of two ways . If you have a NEG ground system, the coils need to be polarised for a NEG ground .
You normally just touch a wire from the battery HOT SIDE to the field coil terminal , this is enough to polarise the coils
MIKE