W4 discharging

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2014

Fired the tractor up today after a rewire. amp gauge went to disgharge, which increased when I turned on the lights. What may be the cause?

Also the on/off switch is mounted beside the light switch. I checked it with a current indicator before installing and It broke the circut when I pushed it in. however when I tried to stop the engine it did not shut it off. What may be the cause ?

Janicholson · Mar 17, 2014

THe issue is difficult to assess as we do not know what was wired to what. Follow the diagram provided for an H Jim
Bob M diagrams

redforlife · Mar 17, 2014

Did you re-wire it up as being original? Such as 6volt positive ground. Or did you hook battery up as negative ground (backward). One thing I can think of for dis-charging would be generator needs to be polarized. The on off switch doesn't make much since why it would do that. Does it have a magnito? If so, the wire off the switch is just a ground wire which actually grounds out the mag and perhaps the switch isn't any good.

mkirsch · Mar 18, 2014

(quoted from post at 18:16:23 03/17/14) Fired the tractor up today after a rewire. amp gauge went to disgharge, which increased when I turned on the lights. What may be the cause?

Also the on/off switch is mounted beside the light switch. I checked it with a current indicator before installing and It broke the circut when I pushed it in. however when I tried to stop the engine it did not shut it off. What may be the cause ?

You didn't wire it right.

It's not charging, and it's backfeeding the coil from somewhere other than the ignition switch.

Without more details, and possibly even looking at your wiring, there really isn't anything specific we can tell you to check.

Is it stock, or is it a 12V conversion? The most common mistake on a 12V conversion is a missing diode, or backwards diode. Either would cause a "run on" condition with the ignition switch off.

On a stock system you are just going to have to start at square one and check everything. You messed up somewhere for sure.

toymaker 27 · Mar 18, 2014

6 volt system. rechecked everything this am found the nut on the F post generater had not been tighten properly. going to try again this afternoon

toymaker 27 · Mar 18, 2014

magneto system

mkirsch · Mar 18, 2014

Hmm, that might explain the not charging, but it doesn't explain the run-on...

I've been guilty of "job blindness" myself on many occasions... It's possible you've been over it so many times that you're unconsciously missing a small mistake, and it might take a fresh set of eyes to find it.

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