Current situation
1965 Triumph 2.5 PI
James Elliott
I’D NOTICED A while back that the Triumph would take a while before the charging kicked in. It had always taken a few seconds until it registered on the dial, but now it could be a full minute. Once it finally showed, though, everything was hunky dory.
Symptom two came a bit later, when the needle on the dial started to oscillate wildly, always positive and showing a charge but jumping about like a flea on speed, which was very much out of character. A quick test with the multimeter proved the battery was receiving a very healthy charge so I ignored it.