>I think my alternator's shot.
>
>I went to start my car yesterday, and the battery was dead. I
>jumped the car, and it ran fine (after I disengaged the jumper
>cables). I drove it for an hour, and let it idle afterwards for
>10 minutes. I went to start it 5 minutes later, and the battery
>was still completely dead. All electrical items run w/o the
>engine on enough to know that the battery ic connected.
>
>Is there a different circuit that connects the battery to the
>car, and that connects the battery to the alternator? Or is it
>that the alternator uses a different line to run the engine than
>it does to charge the battery?
>
>Mike
>
>'78 MIdget
Sounds to me more like a partially dead battery as in a couple of cells
are bad. If the ALT were bad it would not run or run very poorly with a
dead batterey as well.
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Voice mail 215 662-2890
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