Your shop is most likely telling you the truth. Separate, "smart"
regulators are a relatively recent phenonom. If the alternators works,
don't worry about it. I am sure you have lots of projects you have to
address now

--
Dennis Gibbons
S/V Dark Lady
CN35-207
email: dennis dash gibbons at worldnet dot att dot net
"Paul Guatney" wrote in message
om...
Hello all!

I don't know if this is the appropriate group to ask a marine
engine/electrical question, but if it is....here we go!

I have this ancient Island Trader 41 ketch that I am rebuilding,
replacing, sometimes just repainting, her old equipment. I am at the
alternator. It is a "Battery Master BM-140" by Smythe Miller Marine
Inc. of Oviedo, Florida. I cannot find a phone number for
Smythe-Miller Marine. Have they gone "under"? I have had the
alternator rebuilt by the local alternator shop, they say the
alternator is already internally regulated and needs no regulator. The
documentation that I have on the BM-140 suggest different. Do I need
to replace the regualtor? if so can most any regulator dealer help me
with a new regulator? Or....like most of us older boat sailors, am I
just screwed? HA!

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

Paul G.
S/Y Gypsy