Joe Elliott '82 GTV-6 -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
Does the GTV-6 have any means of providing field current to the
alternator other than through the alternator warning lamp? My lamp
has been intermittently inoperative recently, and replacing the bulb
and cleaning the connections on the instrument cluster didn't help.
It would seem logical to have a resistor in parallel to avoid being
stranded by a burned-out bulb, but there's no sign of any such
resistor on the wiring diagram. Although the diagram does show a
parallel field wire going to the mile monitoring device. What's up
with that? Did someone decide that was a convenient place to add the
aforementioned resistor, rather than modifying the printed circuit
for the instrument cluster? (Won't help me now, because I threw out
that mileage counter and replaced it with an RPM-activated switch a
decade ago, to make a shift light.) Or did they just want to be
certain that it didn't erroneously count miles that were accumulated
without the engine running???
