I am very happy you made good progress. Electrical gremlins are the hardest to find especially on an older machine which you have not owned from day one as a bit of corrosion on a ground, a high resistance connection somewhere else and suddenly you have a non functioning system.
Mechanical voltage regulators were going out of the market when I got interested in motor vehicles. However, I have a friend who is into restoring old British motorcycles and when he has trouble with their electrical systems he calls on me.
The regulators are actually quite ingenious with a counterclockwise wound coil overlaid with a clockwise wound coil to create a balance dependent upon current flow in each of the coils .
Even with the best of care these mechanical devices fail when it comes to modern reliability standards and converting them to a modern internally regulated alternator is the long term fix unless you want a non working show piece of a machine.
When you get to that point we can discuss the details.
Dave M7040
Mechanical voltage regulators were going out of the market when I got interested in motor vehicles. However, I have a friend who is into restoring old British motorcycles and when he has trouble with their electrical systems he calls on me.
The regulators are actually quite ingenious with a counterclockwise wound coil overlaid with a clockwise wound coil to create a balance dependent upon current flow in each of the coils .
Even with the best of care these mechanical devices fail when it comes to modern reliability standards and converting them to a modern internally regulated alternator is the long term fix unless you want a non working show piece of a machine.
When you get to that point we can discuss the details.
Dave M7040