Hi all,
Thanks for the input. After a fiew hours of late night runups in a tropical storm we found that both alternators were working very well (hence the over voltage condition) and that indeed both of the regulators that I purchacecd last year have indeed turned belly up! For future referance there should be no conductivity between any of the leads of the regulators! So I called the guys at VanBortel aircraft and had them overnight me a pair of regulators. We installed them the next day and everything was peachy again. There is still a gremlin living in the shadows somewhere in my electrical system, But I've got my traps set and am waiting for him. This time I will be ready. I also ordered the Manuals from McCurtain Technology Group on CD and will keep a copy of them in my plane. $45 (I think for parts and service manuals 64-73&76) from
www.mccurtaintg.com !!! At any rate we made it back to Ft Worth with a couple of side trips to the tune of about 12 or so hours.
_travis