Voltage regulator

grandpa Love · Feb 22, 2022

6 volt voltage regulator. Yesterday's Tractor.... $20. O'Reilly's.... $95. Napa...... $120. Why????

SDE · Feb 22, 2022

Volume of sales.

kencombs · Feb 22, 2022

Brand? Country of manufacture? Storefront vs online? Lots of possibilities. Oh, and greed?

Fritz Maurer · Feb 22, 2022

Chinese knock-off VS. Echlin maybe? Good regs were never cheap. They were $60 20 years ago for a motor-generator system on any Briggs or Kohler. Be glad its not a 30 amp solid state regulator for an Onan.

Steve@Advance · Feb 22, 2022

Walk in auto supplies are counting on you being broke down and desperate, buying for someone else with their money, or just don't know to compare prices.

Plus the lure of lifetime warranty. That doesn't mean the parts are any better, they just jack up the price to cover having to replace it in case it comes back.

And the cost of maintaining a brick and mortar showroom, with public presentable employees (sometimes), liability insurance, loss to theft, and all the other associated costs of being open to the public.

gene bender · Feb 22, 2022

get them from CAR QUEST made in USA or they were last one i bought was and have the generator # also

Sean Feeney · Feb 22, 2022

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tomturkey · Feb 22, 2022

At the 21$ price you'd better buy two. I have had no good luck with generators and regulators. I tried several times, to no avail. Made me a alternator installer, with a trouble free electrical system. gobble

miangus · Feb 22, 2022

How old is this cub. My H has the original voltage regulator, I think it's actually a cut out. The older Farmall's had a system incorporated into the light switch witch increased the charging rate when the switch was turned to the first notch, I think it grounded the field. My H goes to a whooping 10 amps on high charge. On the low setting the charge is almost not detectable. Volt meters measure the voltage between the system and ground. Amp meters measure current flowing through a wire. When diagnosing a charging system a amp meter placed in the charging circuit will measure charging amps in the circuit, anything above zero indicates a charge is flowing through the system. A volt meter will measure volts in the system. A generator that is charging will have some voltage above the battery voltage. I have had a difficult time finding a voltage regulator that continues to work on my MF 65 the new ones seem to fail about annually, or at least I have to clean the contacts. Not claiming the new regulators are poorly made but they just seem to fail.

John M · Feb 22, 2022

Its because its 6 volt. The 12 volt at Oreallys is only 30 bucks. China made of course.

Charlie M · Feb 22, 2022

I can tell you the YT one is junk and so is everyone of them priced cheap because they cheap. I have had them not last a week. Last time I checked the better regulators were $80 - $100.

SVcummins · Feb 23, 2022

Country to popular belief all parts arent the same

Lowbuck1010 · Feb 23, 2022

Find an old Delco Remy, download the relevant service bulletin from the internet, clean the points, set the gaps and put it in. I'll bet it will work AND be more reliable than whatever you can buy today.

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