Specter
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I was reknewing the headlights and fog lights wiring as the old one had become brittle. I had to open the radiator to clean up the hacked wiring mess and use stock routing (beneath the radiator) for the wiring. The wire which comes from the B post of the terminal (+ current) and goes to the battery had some joints right after it comes from the alternator, i simply opened those joints and thats it. After cleaning the headlight wiring i re fitted every thing again. The B post joints on the alternator i opened up were re joined as they were before i opened them up. I did not want to clean them right now and thought i would do it some other time.
The headlights work great, good output from the bulbs, but i am not getting any charge from the alterntor. I read quite a lot of topics on alterntor to find out what makes it tick. What i understood was that the big black 2 wire plug on the alternator has one 12v+ swtichted wire and the other is a lamp signal for the speed meter. I checked the plug and confirmed that one wire had the ignition 12v+ GOING IN the alternator and the other wire had negative current coming OUT FROM the alternator consistenly even with the ignition key off. The second wire, the negative current is not connected to anything, i think it had a joint somewhere to some other wire but during the cleaning process i lost that joint and now its loose, i think it should not have any effect on the alternator output, is this correct?
I checked the output both on battery, and then on the B post terminal of the alternator but all i get is a lousy 11 volt current from the battery itself, there is no charge from the alternator. The alternator was working fine before i opened up the wiring. I would like to know if i screwed something up or if i missed something. I do not want to open this alternator up and then find out that the alternator is fine. There is no question of blown fuses to my understanding because im checking the output directly on the alternator.
Urgent response is highly appreciated.
Thanks!
The headlights work great, good output from the bulbs, but i am not getting any charge from the alterntor. I read quite a lot of topics on alterntor to find out what makes it tick. What i understood was that the big black 2 wire plug on the alternator has one 12v+ swtichted wire and the other is a lamp signal for the speed meter. I checked the plug and confirmed that one wire had the ignition 12v+ GOING IN the alternator and the other wire had negative current coming OUT FROM the alternator consistenly even with the ignition key off. The second wire, the negative current is not connected to anything, i think it had a joint somewhere to some other wire but during the cleaning process i lost that joint and now its loose, i think it should not have any effect on the alternator output, is this correct?
I checked the output both on battery, and then on the B post terminal of the alternator but all i get is a lousy 11 volt current from the battery itself, there is no charge from the alternator. The alternator was working fine before i opened up the wiring. I would like to know if i screwed something up or if i missed something. I do not want to open this alternator up and then find out that the alternator is fine. There is no question of blown fuses to my understanding because im checking the output directly on the alternator.
Urgent response is highly appreciated.
Thanks!