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My favorite old Trumpet shirt has a Lucas light switch with labels that say, Dim, Flicker, Off! Unfortunately, too true.



I will never understand this, I run Lucas on all my old bikes and have never had an electrical problem out of the ordinary that happens to any car or bike. The AC generators last forever since they have no wear parts. The old generators were not the greatest but the HD ones weren't any better. The old magnitos worked great. I have 50 year old units that still work fine and never had anything but new plug contacts and points put in them. Show me other companies that have 50+ year old electrical componants that still work with no rebuild. (my Studebaker but that has low mileage on it) The only real Lucas problem was the wiring harness, had bullet connectors where all they did was push the wire through and clip it together. No solder , no crimp just pinched between the bullet and socket. The Zener Diode wasn't the best either but it did work. The TR6C I rode all over the country had all stock electrics in it except I did the wiring harness. The Typanium units replaced the Zener and rectifier and then they were pretty much trouble free. They even make a Typanium unit now that looks like the original Zener heat sink.

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