[Pontirag]

If your just cruising around at low speed your generator will not charge. or it will under charge. people who know will agree that generators begin charging at a higher rpm than alternators. People mess with the regulator thinking its at fault and mes it up too. Dont be afraid to Take it out and run it at sustained moderat reasonable speeds to get it up and charging. Clean all the contact points in the regulator befor you go in and tweak stuff. Service it according to the manual befor you condem any component. POST 1001!

[Rusty]

Pontirag,

Thanks for the caution, but I don't think the voltage booster I'm looking at gets involved with the generator at all. I believe from what little I've read about them that it basically branches off of some other wiring and somehow within the small box unit converts the 6v power into power usable for your standard 12v radio, etc. I'm going to be doing some more research and calling on the thing before I go that route, because right now it sounds too easy to be true I'll let people know what I come up with in case anyone else is in the same boat as me.

Rusty

[Jack Gifford]

Rusty- the "voltage boosters" you're talking about are known in the industry as DC-to-DC converters, such as I bought from Antique Electronic Supply. To buy one with enough output current capacity to directly run a sound system would be very expensive. A "junk" 12v battery serves as a perfect "buffer" (capable of many, many amperes and is basically "free"), so the converter only needs to supply the average current consumed and can be inexpensive. Have fun!