For those who have followed my pesky generator failure, I probably found the problem today by accident. For those who had not followed my discussion on this, my coupe had its generator removed and overhauled at an FAA facility. Charging was still erratic, generator removed again and bench checked OK. Regulator was then replaced with a new one, although the old one checked out ok too. Then the master switch was suspect, it was replaced with a new one, still not cured. I bought it with that history, but the charging was very erratic to not at all. Flashed the fields and made some checks, no solution. Today as I am tearing the plane apart to do a batch of things, to include replacing the generator with a cessna alternator, and as I was about to take the field wire from the generator, I noticed a sleeve on the wire, obviously original equipment, and wiped it off - it had a big A on the sleeve! Yep, way back when, someone switched the field and the armature wires on the generator! I am still going to put on the alternator, not sure just what damage was caused with the switch of wires. I am glad I am rewiring, if you just bend these old wires, the insulation just flakes off, and will be replaced with new wire.
