My 3 year old (rebulid) alternator is now only putting out 11V at idle and 10.5 when I rev up the engine. I remember testing it when I first got it back from the rebuild 3 years ago and it never put out over 13V, it was around 12.4. I have open it up, tested the diode pack and the brushes, they are still good.
Ther is a diode mounted onto the case that is not connected to anything. I was trying to trace the wiring to figure out how the 2 wire (yellow and black) regulator should be connected to the brushes and diode pack. The case of the regulator is connected to the center brush, and its black wire connected to the alternator case. The other wire on the regulator (yellow) is connected to the outside brush with a green wire which is also connected to the outter most .25" spade connector on the diode pack. That .25" spade is also the same .25" spade connector for the alernator harness. The other two spade connector for the harness is .5" I assume goes to the battery. Does anyone konw if this is correctly wired, and does anyone know how to test the regulator. Thank. Dave |\ | | | _______________________________________/\ /\ /\_____| \|_____| |____________ Dave Chu \/ \/ | /| | | Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng. |/ | | | Concordia University Voice:(514)848-3115 Fax:(514)848-2802 1455 de Maisonneuve W. H961 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~dave/addr.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
