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Lister Based Generators / Re: Hello, thank you and Help...
« on: March 24, 2023, 01:48:15 PM »
Hi Bob,
I have just re-read your reply. Sorry to hear that you lost so much in a fire, that must have been terrible.
Nearly ready to try to fire up the old generator again. Have managed to source two radio suppressors from Sleeman and Hawken - at vast expense! However it seems a shame to spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar.
Looking at the commutator, I don't think the machine has done a lot of work, but it has been abused by an ignorant person in the past. Bad wiring etc. The worst was a battery lead which shorted and took out the earth from the control box down into the alternator. Luckily, it wasn't a winding tail, but went into the main junction box. Replaced.
Once that wire had failed, the short current went thought the flexible armoured cable which connects the control box to the solenoids. The armour must have been glowing red hot looking at the way bits have disintegrated!!
It will be a great sense of achievement if I can get the old thing running again.
All best from Kent,
Chris.
I have just re-read your reply. Sorry to hear that you lost so much in a fire, that must have been terrible.
Nearly ready to try to fire up the old generator again. Have managed to source two radio suppressors from Sleeman and Hawken - at vast expense! However it seems a shame to spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar.
Looking at the commutator, I don't think the machine has done a lot of work, but it has been abused by an ignorant person in the past. Bad wiring etc. The worst was a battery lead which shorted and took out the earth from the control box down into the alternator. Luckily, it wasn't a winding tail, but went into the main junction box. Replaced.
Once that wire had failed, the short current went thought the flexible armoured cable which connects the control box to the solenoids. The armour must have been glowing red hot looking at the way bits have disintegrated!!
It will be a great sense of achievement if I can get the old thing running again.
All best from Kent,
Chris.