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From: Rich, Michael (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 15:10:40 EDT
Tom in NC, No I don't think so. It was all smoking pretty good and smelled
nice too. It's a simple AC/Delco type alternator on a Perkins 4.108 which
has an internal voltage regulator.
Is there a AC Delco point of contact on the web that someone would have
seen? mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Meeker [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:08 PM
To: Rich, Michael
Cc:
Subject: alternator, regulator, etc.
Maybe you just burned out the internal voltage regulator and not the entire
alternator. Or, do you have a voltage regulator that is not part of this
alternator? I know most alternators today do have an internal regulator
installed in them.
Tom in NC
----- Original Message -----
From: Rich, Michael
To: 'Richard Goodwin'
Cc: ''
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: RE: lv-ab: Charging Problem
Dick, Thanks, I'll have to check to see where the alternator sense wire is
going. The batteries 27 and 4d are sizes. Could taking voltage from one
starting battery and having it go to the house bank by way of the 1/0
cables
be causing a problem? The batteries won't last as long but my food and
drinks in the fridge will. The batteries aren't wired quite right by the
P.O. since the no 1 battery will not charge unless the switch is set to
both. When at both, I have two size 27's and a size 31 and a size 4d
charging all at once. Could this have burned out the 65 amp alternator if
the voltage sensing wire is not connected to the largest battery or the
smallest battery? How should the charge wire from the starter go to the
1/2-both switch so that the number 1 charges when at number 1 position and
so on? mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Goodwin [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:40 PM
To: Rich, Michael
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Charging Problem
Hi Rich,
> The batteries are
> connected together with a 2/0 strap from negative to negative but I
don't
> see any connection other than the 1-2-both switch which combines the
> batteries. I would think this to be normal.
Sounds right to me.
> I have checked all my books
> and can't find any good arrangement for this. From the starter a
battery
> charging/starting cable goes to the 1-2-both switch.
So the alternator's output goes to the starter? OK, that works, but is
there a separate sense wire that goes to the regulator terminal on the
alternator? If so, where does the other end of that wire go?
If there isn't one, then the regulator must get its battery voltage
sense info from its charging output, which isn't as accurate, but would
only tend to undercharge the batteries, not burn up the alternator.
Sounds like everything else is workable. The key now is the regulator
sense wire question.
Dick
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