[Main C900 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Re: Right, the alternator light should always come on when Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by RS [Email] (#15) [Profile/Gallery] (more from RS) on Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:59:43 In Reply to: Re: Right, the alternator light should always come on when, thereuare, Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:34:19 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

If you know someone with a clamp-on DC ammeter (most of the cheapie clamp-ons are AC only) try this:

Do a quickie charging test right after you start the car to see what's going into the battery. Then, turn the A/C on, turn the ventilation fan to 3, turn the headlights on, and push the gas so the engine is up to 2k RPM (out of gear, of course) and see if you're charging or discharging the battery. IIRC, 2k RPM should be somewhere around the range where charging rate plateaus.

It's a drag having to depend on your car for social occasions and long trips when you have that "will it die on me?" hovering over you like Joe Btfsplk's storm cloud. (I had a battery just curl up and die on vacation. We bought a new one but, when we stopped for dinner, we left the car running outside the restaurant and locked it up.)

The car might be OK to take but, in the same situation, I'd want to check out the charging system as well as I could. A rental may be the most comfortable option. (I hate to even think it, but I ended up driving a rental LeSabre to SOC 2002. Didn't have the heart to autocross it :-)

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• Dead Battery (diff. than post below this one), thereuare, Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:47:53
  • Did you change the oil filter also ???, Alex Bucell, Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:59:36
    • Re: Did you change the oil filter also ???, thereuare, Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:22:53
      • It's not the battery wire, its a wire on the alternator, RS , Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:21:35
        • Re: Dead Battery (update, still have a few Q's), thereuare, Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:50:03
          • Re: Dead Battery x 2 (update, still have a few Q's), thereuare, Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:34:21
            • Right, the alternator light should always come on when, RS , Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:08:15
              • Re: Right, the alternator light should always come on when, thereuare, Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:34:19
                • Re: Right, the alternator light should always come on when, RS , Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:59:43 <-- Viewing This Message
                  • Re: Results of testing, thereuare, Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:57:05
                    • Re: Results of testing, RS , Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:21:28

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