There is no "on" or "off", the alternator always tries to put out more than battery voltage. The blue wire will always have battery voltage when the key is in the RUN position.

What we refer to as a 12V system is actually a 14V system (I'll probably get some disagreement here) but all of the components in a 12V system are built to handle 14V+.

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