Electrical Help Needed

[antique fisherman]

I have a 1966 50HP Chrysler. It had battery ignition (points, condensers and coils). The rectifier has multiple plates and three wiring lugs. The stator has three wires coming from it, all three appear to be white in color. Can someone tell me where to hook the three wires to ? Thank You very much!

 

[emoney]

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I can look in my manual when I get off work, but would two of the wires
go into each coil?

 

[antique fisherman]

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emoney >> Neither of these wires go to the coils. Wires come from the points to the coils. There are two coils, two sets of points and two condensers. Wires go from the points to the coils and hot wires go to the coils. Please let me know what you find. The three wires from the stator are for charging the battery. Thank You

 

[Frank Acampora]

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The red square is a slenium rectifier. Now, bear with me, it's been a long time and I might not be correct: Only two of the stator wires attach to it: one on each outer lug. Which two? Are you sure one was not originally colored differently?
The center lug is either attached to the red wire to the engine terminal board OR if the engine has a trip regulator mounted on the exhaust cover the center goes to the trip regulator and the regulator attaches to the red terminal on the engine board. This is how voltage gets back to the battery and charges it.

Try asking over at The Chrysler Crew, Chrysler marine website
OR: If you have a VOM, trytesting two wires while the engine is running. Any pair that gives an AC voltahe will work--I think.

 

[Nordin]

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The old Chrysler 35, 45, 50 and 55Hp had a 3-phase alternator ( the later models had 2-phase) so all three should be connected to the rectifier.
The rectifier has four connections, three are the AC side and the last the pos.+ DC. The rectifier is grounded and that is neg.- DC.
The three in line at the top of the rectifier are the AC (maybee there are yellow dots or marks) The one down to the powerhead block is DC+.