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Show If Battery !s Idle Care for Generator Never run the engine ""with the storage stor-age battery out o the car or disconnected, discon-nected, unless you first see to it that the generator is rendered inoperative. "Whenever the generator is being driv- en by the engine it is delivering current cur-rent to the battery, but if the battery is not in the circuit it is not hard to understand un-derstand that the generator will build! jup a voltage, which will very soon ,damage or burn out the windings, to stiy nothing of what it might do to the commutator and brushes. Even if tlie battery is defective and .will not charge, it should be left con-jnected con-jnected to tho electrical system until it is replaced by another battery; that lis, if the engine is to be run in the meantime. Or, if no substitute battery J is obtainable for use during the time ' the other battery Is undergoing repair, .the car can be run without fear of damage to the generator if the field winding is disconnected. In some cases the generator is of the type haying IH thermostatic control; and this requires IH tho short-circuiting of tho generator, IH usually across the terminals. UM |