wrote:
>
> Just tried my '66 GTO's mechanical voltage regulator on my friend's
> '69 Firebird and it started charging his battery again. Even though
> he had bought a new voltage regulator a month or so ago. (And then an
> alternator.) His does not have the condenser installed on the voltage
> regulator like mine does, but there's a terminal for it.
>
> I'm wondering if the condenser is necessary, maybe to keep the
> contacts from burning? I'd heard it was to prevent radio
> intereference, which we don't care about. I can't find anything in
> the service manual about it. If it's necessary to prevent contacts
> burning, maybe his new voltage regulator fried its contacts.

I think the main purpose of the condenser was to reduce static on the
radio. Particularly on AM radio.

-jim

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