If someone would volunteer to suffer through another alternator question, I would be grateful. I have teh CB performance wiring schematic, and have mine hooked up that way, ACCEPT that i had the D+ to indicator to ground, not to switched power. I think someone made a comment that this was the way to do it on one of the threads I read.
Anyway, my light never came on (maybe a bad bulb?) the way I now think it should have, being wired as it is. My alternator B+ wire goes to the starter solenoid, battery power post, just like in the CB diagram, but I'm only showing 12.5V on a meter, the VDO dash gauge, and everywhere else I check the circuit. No hot wires or fires have resulted, but with the motor off, I read 'some' level of conductivity between B+ and ground (~6.28 ohms, I think).
QUESTIONS: Should the B+ to ground read "open" when the motor is off?
Has something blown up, such that the alt. has no output under these conditions?? I read that the alternator output is governed by the regulator feedback; the higher the imbalance between alt. and batt., the higher the alt. output. SO...with the D+ circuit being open, does this mean (I hope!) that the alt. output would be 'minimal'? One guy told me that the D+ doesn't have to be attached at all (doesn't seem right).
I'll check it out tonight, but I sure hope that bulb is blown...!
Sorry for the redundancy; ridicule will be tolerated graceously!!(especially if it's laced with some help :) )
Tim
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