Charging issues 79 ironhead
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Good to hear you got it solved. Good stuff.
Just for future clarity, your 79 has a generator and takes a regulator only. 78 was the last year of the old Bosch electro-mechanical regulators (coils and moving points etc inside it). 79 used a solid state regulator (no rectifier) like the finned one in the pic above. So different part number and whole different look from the up-to-78 regulator.
Later bikes (1981 Ironhead from memory) with an alternator inside the primary used a solid state regulator/rectifier that looks much the same but functions differently to change the AC alternator output to DC.
Nothing is ever simple on an Ironhead!
Just for future clarity, your 79 has a generator and takes a regulator only. 78 was the last year of the old Bosch electro-mechanical regulators (coils and moving points etc inside it). 79 used a solid state regulator (no rectifier) like the finned one in the pic above. So different part number and whole different look from the up-to-78 regulator.
Later bikes (1981 Ironhead from memory) with an alternator inside the primary used a solid state regulator/rectifier that looks much the same but functions differently to change the AC alternator output to DC.
Nothing is ever simple on an Ironhead!
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