snowhound 105 #1 Posted April 10, 2022 (edited) Today I replaced the coil on a 416-8 with a M series motor, mice had chewed off the sparkplug wire. Now it won't turn off and it's over charging the battery. At an idle the voltage at the battery is 18 and if the RPMs are increased it goes above 20. I did forget to mark how the connector on the rectifier went on, could putting it on the wromg way cause the over charging? I didn't have these issues before I changed the coil, what did I do wrong? Edited April 10, 2022 by snowhound forgot a put in all the information Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 52,812 #2 Posted April 10, 2022 Have you verified the voltages with a multi-meter? If the Voltage Regulator has a poor ground the voltage could go a little wild. The two outer terminals on your Voltage regulator are the AC Voltage developed by your engine so putting it on backward shouldn't change anything. At best there should be about 36 volts AC between the two terminals, once it is rectified into DC it shouldn't go above 16 volts DC. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snowhound 105 #3 Posted April 14, 2022 (edited) Found my charging issue was no issue with the tractor. I was getting bad readings from the multimeater. I tried 2 other meters and both showed the charging system is working correctly. Now I just have to find out why the tractor isn't turning off. Edited April 14, 2022 by snowhound had to chang the wording to make it clear and misspelled words 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 10,965 #4 Posted April 14, 2022 24 minutes ago, snowhound said: why the tractor isn't turning off Easy. It simply wants to be out there running! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
