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I found a manual about the gen head at: Gen Head Manual
It talks about using a 12 volt battery with a 30 ohm current limiting resistor to apparently flash the gen head.
See PDF page 52
You may want to test the rotating diodes in the gen head. If they are toast the rotor won't generate any...
Unfortunately the Operations and Maintenance manual has very little info in the Generator Runs but doesn't produce power section.
Yes, Yellow and Blue are the two wires to the exciter from the VR.
The VR is powered from Red and Red.
The VR system relies on "residual magnetism" in the gen head...
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