Long story short, but I have blown (if that is what it can called) the 'windings' on my generator and has been confirmed by a marine technician that was crew on a boat anchored next to me at Lizard Is. This techie was German an his English while ok I suspect there may of been some misinterpretation -from both ends

Does anybody in the know know, if these are either easily replaced or worthwhile replacing. All I got from him was "it's the windings and the generator is f@$ked and it will be better to replace it than to repair it. It dawned on me later he could of ment to replace the winding rather then the whole genny.

I plan on about 3 weeks to a month through the Kimberlies and need the genny to make water. If its not worth replacing the windings I will need to buy a 2kva genny in TI (or Weipa.. Shout out to southace... do you know where I can source one???), or if viable to replace, fill up with water in TI and dash across to Darwin for the repair.

Your thoughs please

Toph, what brand geny? What did he measure?

If the motor runs Ok it sounds like its worth fixing. The windings can be either open circuit or short circuit. If they were short circuit you would expect maybe a hot smell and the motor would be loaded a bit. Sounds too hard to fix on boat I think.

You are playing with an AC generator!

Id go to Darwin and get a tech to confirm and remove. Should easily find a place in Darwin to have it rewound. Get tech to reinstall and test.