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Re: Electrical woes

To: DANMAS@aol.com
Subject: Re: Electrical woes
From: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:16:14 -0600
DANMAS@aol.com wrote:

> To which Bob Allen replied:
>
> "Have your alternator checked. Leaking diode."
>
> Bob,
>
> I'm afraid you have me stumped on this one!  For the life of me, I can't
> figure how either of these could be the problem.

Hey, Dan, you're the eletrical wizard and you want me to describe were the smoke
hides? Jeez, things are getting tough on this list. Can't we go back to beer,
pistol ballistics, or BCH jokes?

I've seen it but I ain't traced it down. Near as I can tell, when you turn the
key, the brown wire is bringing voltage to the white wire which runs off to the
coil. At the same lug off the key switch is another white wire, going through 
the
ignition lamp, where it leaves as a brown / yellow wire and terminates at the
alternator. With an inoperable charging circuit, that wire will see a ground,
allowing voltage to pass through the light and it burns.

On the otherhand, if something becomes amiss in the voltage regulator, the
Brown/Yellow wire does not see a ground but finds voltage. The voltage feeds 
back
through the light, over to the ignition switch on the white wire, to the same 
lug
as the coil wire is fed, and now the coil stays energised when you turn off the
key.

I made an off-the-cuff response to the fellow with the overrun problem as that 
is
something I have witnessed. I'm not at all sure what miracles go on in the
alternator to get voltage on the Brown/Yellow wire.

If you wish to correct me when I'm wrong, get in line.
--
Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
"If Barbie were real life she'd be 38-23-34. But if real life were a doll it'd 
be
a $2.00 Beanie baby in a Burger King meal."


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