THANKS Strum56. I jumped the ground and field connections at the voltage reglr. to repolarize the VR coils as suggested at another website. THis did work and I am back in business. I am smarter for this and thankyou for your post.
wow.. you are lucky. And there's plenty of misinformation in this thread~!
NAA electrical systems are B circuit.
you polarize the GENERATOR, not the vreg.
to polarize the B circuit gen, you jump bat hot to FIELD with reg disconnected.
older A circuit systems such as an 8N jumped bat to arm to polarize. This should work on a B circuit as well and would not hurt it.. though you can do the opposite and polarize an a circuit like a b circuit or you will burn up a 40$ regulator.
Generators will motor when you apply power to their armature. that's normal, and indicates you have a good genny.
since the vreg field contacts are closed at shutdown, hitting armature with power will make it spin.
your vreg cutout contacts were stuck closed due to the incorrect polarazation.. however.. they did serve to polarize the genny anyway, at shut down, as a motor test will set the polarization.. and if she spun after shutdown, she was motoring.
save this post so you can repolarize the genny correctly next time you need to, and not risk burning up 40$ vregs. and if in doubt, ask.. plenty of people here 24-7 glad to help
soundguy
