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Bruce Lancaster · 04-04-2016, 08:12 PM

If you define "Modern" as meaning about 1940...
I think a regulator in the charging system is a real functional improvement. Stock, the generator has to crank out whatever amperage it is set on all the time, and so it is necessarily either allowing discharge or cooking the battery much of the time.
(edit...after WWII, the time is oft referred to as "Postmodern." Postmodern points are an entirely different matter.)

04-04-2016, 08:12 PM	#17
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: Does modern mean better? If you define "Modern" as meaning about 1940... I think a regulator in the charging system is a real functional improvement. Stock, the generator has to crank out whatever amperage it is set on all the time, and so it is necessarily either allowing discharge or cooking the battery much of the time. (edit...after WWII, the time is oft referred to as "Postmodern." Postmodern points are an entirely different matter.) Last edited by Bruce Lancaster; 04-04-2016 at 08:17 PM.