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Dynamator for Lazarus Without Control Box

This article follows Dynamator-for-Lazarus in describing how I went about converting Lazarus (my 1952 TD 10855) from using a dynamo to using an alternator.  The U.K. sourced alternator is called a Dynamator and was purchased from Abingdon Spares in Deep River Ct. USA.  I have no financial connection with Abingdon Spares except that I've been sending money to the organization since I bought Lazarus in 1988.

The first article describes doing the conversion by using an RB106/2 Control Box to aid in the wiring.  It is also possible to do the conversion without having to utilize a control box, i.e., using a standard 8 terminal electrical connection wiring strip.  That is the technique used here.  The wiring strip was purchased for about $13US through Amazon and came in a package of 4 wiring strips and 4 pieces of shorting strips.

Here is the modified wiring diagram showing the emptied control box on the left and the terminal strip on the right.  The terminals are numbered from 1 through 8, left to right. 1 is for the brown/blue wire that feeds the Ignition Switch; 2 is for the brown/white wire that comes from the ammeter; 3 is for the small yellow wire that comes from the Ignition Warning Light (it was formerly on the D terminal of the Control Box with the D wire of the dynamo); 4 is for the yellow/green wire that comes from the dynamo Field terminal (now comes from the Dynamator's Field connector); 5 is for the 10 gauge wire from the Dynamator's D terminal (was from the dynamo's yellow wire); 6 and 7 are for the black, ground wires from the wiring harness; 8 is for the ground/earth wire that goes to the ground connector at the battery's earthing/grounding point. The heavy yellow wires are the leads from the 40 amp fuse terminal that connects the Dynamator output to the terminal 1/2 junction.  The red pieces are shorting bars connecting adjacent terminals. The black covered pieces connect the three ground terminals together.

This article is under construction and will likely be getting updated in the near future.  I strongly recommend getting in the habit of  refreshing these pages whenever you bring them up. Bud

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