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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Urgent - Comet Lucas Dynamo doesn't appear to be charging
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<blockquote data-quote="Matty" data-source="post: 55081" data-attributes="member: 1339"><p>Great stuff Greg, I have not checked, but was told the Miller had more commutator segments and different windings which made it better. But you have done some practical checks so it seems the Lucas unit is the best one after all under stressful conditions. </p><p></p><p>I qualified as an electrical/electronic Engineer many years ago and probably could have understood the theory of the generators then in detail - wave wound versus lap wound etc. But I'm afraid my brain has not survived in as good condition as the Comet I have owned since 1956, so I'll take your word for it, in preference to the opinions of others who advised me in the dim and distant past.</p><p></p><p>Just a little ironic story.</p><p>About 30 years ago a "friend" temporally fitted my spare pristine Lucas dynamo which I was intending to fit to my Comet, to his Rapide when the solder melted and threw the windings of his Miller. After a time he forgot he had my dynamo on his bike and sold it. When I enquired a few years later about my dynamo and how he had had his repaired he could not even remember the loan, but remembered he had binned an old wrecked Miller dynamo he found in his garage.!!!</p><p></p><p>Such is life - he is my son's Godfather after all, - but I still have the inferior Miller dynamo on the Comet !!!</p><p></p><p>Matty</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matty, post: 55081, member: 1339"] Great stuff Greg, I have not checked, but was told the Miller had more commutator segments and different windings which made it better. But you have done some practical checks so it seems the Lucas unit is the best one after all under stressful conditions. I qualified as an electrical/electronic Engineer many years ago and probably could have understood the theory of the generators then in detail - wave wound versus lap wound etc. But I'm afraid my brain has not survived in as good condition as the Comet I have owned since 1956, so I'll take your word for it, in preference to the opinions of others who advised me in the dim and distant past. Just a little ironic story. About 30 years ago a "friend" temporally fitted my spare pristine Lucas dynamo which I was intending to fit to my Comet, to his Rapide when the solder melted and threw the windings of his Miller. After a time he forgot he had my dynamo on his bike and sold it. When I enquired a few years later about my dynamo and how he had had his repaired he could not even remember the loan, but remembered he had binned an old wrecked Miller dynamo he found in his garage.!!! Such is life - he is my son's Godfather after all, - but I still have the inferior Miller dynamo on the Comet !!! Matty [/QUOTE]
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