More genny questions.

Put the d19 in the garage today.  Took the wires off of the generator and ran a hot wire to the A terminal with the belt off and it motored ok.  Brushes were a little stuck, so I took it off and cleaned up the brushes and got the springs working good again and then put it back together.   Put the generator back on and motored again with the A terminal and it spun around much better.   Took off the regulator and looked things over and made sure contacts were clean and not fused which they weren't.  Clean up all the outside terminals to make sure the wire terminals all got good contact, and put the wires all back on.   Double checked the wiring to my wiring diagram and everything it hooked up properly and it is.  So now, I am supposed to flash the generator and the regulator.   Which terminals am I suppose to flash before I start it back up and see if everything is working?   Thanks for all the help. 

Most old generator regulators have three terminals; battery,
field, and armature. Momentarily jumping the battery to the
field terminal with the engine running will polarize the field.
 If the regulator terminals are easily accessible and you can
 identify them this is the easiest place to do it as the terminals
are in close proximity to each other. For a negative ground
system this is the same as jumping the positive battery
terminal to the field terminal. Not sure if your tractor is
negative or positive ground.
To polarize the generator, simply make a short jumper wire to short
between the battery (b or bat) and generator (g or gen) lugs on
the cutout relay or voltage regulator. Only a split-second or a
spark is required, so simply tap your jumper wire onto the lugs
 and pull them right back off.
HTH    B:-)

Thanks everyone.   I did find a couple previous posts and did exactly as all of you have mentioned.   I think it is working.   My ammeter guage is shot, so I put a voltmeter on the battery.   With the key off, 12.61 volts.   With the tractor started and running, voltage was slowly climbing up to 12.99 volts.   there are no lights on this tractor, so I couldn't put them on to put a draw on the battery to see if the charging system would respond to a load, but before I monkeyed with everything, whatever the battery voltage was, it would not increase and would slowly decrease with the tractor running and the only draw was the ignition system.   So I think all is good, and now on to the power steering and brakes.   I need to setup a pressure guage on the power steering pump and see what I am putting out and see if I can pull some shims out of the bypass, and get more pressure out of it.  

12.99 is a good start and the voltage will continue to rise if its being charged. If the meter is accurate, it should rise to right about 14.2 and level off and by then the battery will be warmed by charging and by the heat from the nearby engine. The voltage will rise slowly if the generator is not very big its sure not going to rise as fast as it might with a 60 amp alternator if the generator is only 20 amps. I like an ammeter to show current truly going into the battery and then tapering to zero as the full charge condition is reached.

Gerald J.

Put a battery charger on the battery and start the tractor after the battery is fully charged. You should be back up above 13.8 volts within minutes.  A good ammeter would help determine just how must the generator is putting out, of course.