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ALT tested fine and I think I know why battery died :( Posted by jgARC03SW [Email] ![]() ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Testing alternator at Autozone?, jgARC03SW ![]() ![]() |
I remember posting that I found along with my dead battery that my parking light switch was vertical. When I shut the engine off the lights went out, no problem.
Then a couple weeks back I pulled the DRL fuse #35. AHA now it does not shut off the parking lights when the engine was off!!!!! I noticed this since I left my switch vertical (parking light position) when I went in to autozone for 2 minutes to ask them to check the alternator.
D'OH!!!!! (forehead slap).
Didn't know fuse 35 had such an effect! Is this normal?? Of course Saab didn't put in a warning chime saying you left your lights on (like my cheapo Ford compact) since in their mind you aren't supposed to pull that fuse I guess.
Anyway the Autozone alternator was just an analog voltmeter, with one gauge for the battery one for the alternator. I was concerend that it would be some digital load test like it was for their free battery test, and that would somehow muck up things, but there was no worry at all. Battery read 12 something volts and alternator was 13.5 volts (in the green zone).
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