[Farmall] International A died (and I am baffled)

[ebony51 at frontiernet.net]

Ivan,  Do not take my word on this but I think some alternators have internal diodes that prevent feedback and draining of the battery, or you can add one on externally, but the oil pressure exicter apparantly works.  I have on my Super C.

I tend to disconnect my batteries anyway (with a quick disconnect) when I quite using a tractor.  I have several and I often go weeks or months at a time without running them.  So, I usually shut off the gas and let them run dry and the disconnect the battery (since too often I have let them run dry and the forget to shut off the switch).  I also have several float charges that I rotate among the tractors and the garden tractors and other things I have that have acid lead batteries.

Hope this information is helpful.

Larry



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Cousins" <ivancou at windstream.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 9:18:02 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Farmall] International A died (and I am baffled)

Thanks Larry . I never considered something like that . So simple its a no 
brainer .   I had been using a single wire alternator till it locked up this 
winter , so I just slapped a regular one on and hooked it up to the light 
switch .I went to use it monday and had to replace a dead battery .   Ivan 


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