The Reactor "looks like" a spring is missing AND looks like the brushes are gone or shot. There has been some rewiring done on the 240V side but most wire colors have faded so hard to tell. I will try to attach some photos of the machine to give an indication of its general condition. The copy of the manual is as received from Lincoln Australia, apparently the AS 400 was too old to be kept as a digital download so a paper manual was scanned and sent to me. Have not done a flash re-excitation as suggested as the I was welding when the current stopped so don't think it would have lost its original excitation from the residual magnetism in the fields. Maybe I am doing something wrong, if not what does this mean, bad joint somewhere or worse. Took the paper out and rotated the unit a short distance and then another test with the paper back, this read 21 M Ohms. The results did not seem good, the meter showed 10 M Ohms with paper under one set of exciter brushes, tried another meter which had a max 2M Ohms capacity and it showed overload. Had a chance to look at the machine again recently and did the resistance test as suggested by GWIZ.
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