Your Alternator sounds healthy to me.
As far as your Indicator light goes, yes this opens the indicator sense
circuit, but not the regulator sense, if placing the brown/yellow wire to
ground doesn't illuminate the bulb then it is open via burnt bulb or circuit
problem.The bulb relies upon close to or equal voltage on either side of the
bulb to extinguish, whereby if the alternator has an inadequate charge,
current will flow from the battery to alternator ground and illuminate the
light to an intensity that corresponds to the differrential on the each side
of the bulb.
Brooks
76 Spit
74 & 76 Six
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Walt Philipson
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:28 AM
To: 6 - Pack
Subject: battery voltage
My voltmeter never gets above 13.5 volts (approx). My alternator was
recently rebuilt. I tested the circuit per Dan's instructions. I get 13.5 at
the battery, with everything off. I even put a charger on it and fully
charged I only got 13.5. Shouldn't I get 14 to 14.6? The voltage at the
small brown wire is also about 13.5, but my meter is pretty coarse, so I'm
not sure I can detect .2 volt difference. Also, I think my sensor light is
burned out. For whatever reason, it doesn't work when I short the
brown/yellow wire to ground. Wouldn't this open the sense circuit?
Am I missing something here?
Walt
74 TR6
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