Kurt Mueller
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Agree!
I agree to this point. Here's a little story: Unknowingly I had trouble with my alternator as well. First there was this x-mas tree effect on my dash, then the lights went dim and the motor stalled leaving me stranded on the motorway. The battery was dead! So the next day I swapped in a new one, that blew after few KMs again. Man at the shop measured a voltage far over 14.7V at high revs and told me to swap the alternator, so I bought a new alt to the new bat. At disassembling the old alt, I found a thin loose wire leading to the alternator. That was the feedback line to the voltage regulator. So without a reference the relay didn't limit and blew 100% from the alternator into the system an lit all the candles. After mending the wire all problems were gone and I took the new alternator back to the shop. Only the loss of two batteries hurt a bit...
Cheers
Kurt
the alternator seems to be the trouble 90% of the time!
I agree to this point. Here's a little story: Unknowingly I had trouble with my alternator as well. First there was this x-mas tree effect on my dash, then the lights went dim and the motor stalled leaving me stranded on the motorway. The battery was dead! So the next day I swapped in a new one, that blew after few KMs again. Man at the shop measured a voltage far over 14.7V at high revs and told me to swap the alternator, so I bought a new alt to the new bat. At disassembling the old alt, I found a thin loose wire leading to the alternator. That was the feedback line to the voltage regulator. So without a reference the relay didn't limit and blew 100% from the alternator into the system an lit all the candles. After mending the wire all problems were gone and I took the new alternator back to the shop. Only the loss of two batteries hurt a bit...
Cheers
Kurt