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Re: overcharging nightmare help
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06/06/16 11:31 PM
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Do you have an ohm meter and know how to use it?
Cause I'm thinking the green wire might be shorted to ground.
Disconnect the battery, negative cable first, then measure the green wire to ground. Unplug VR first.
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
[Re: KOS]
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06/07/16 12:41 AM
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can I persuade you to pull all the wires & jumper everything? (including ground paths). A pair of bullet connectors on the reg nubs are a good plan as they are close together/hard to access & you for sure dont want an alligator clip to come loose & touch the other! this'll elim the hard components
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
[Re: RapidRobert]
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06/07/16 12:44 AM
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can I persuade you to pull all the wires & jumper everything? (including ground paths). A pair of bullet connectors on the reg nubs are a good plan as they are close together/hard to access & you for sure dont want an alligator clip to come loose & touch the other! this'll elim the hard components yes you can.........i will try to get everything im gonna need tm.
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
[Re: RapidRobert]
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06/07/16 12:49 AM
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the blue wire ign1 (run) circuit T's & goes to one of the alt field terminals and to the top nub on the reg. I'd take all field wires off & jump 12V from batt positive post to alt and reg blue field wire terminals. connect green wire alt field terminal to side reg terminal. jumper alt and reg case and eng block to batt neg post. run it at a fast idle & see what the voltage is. this takes ALL wiring out of the picture & confirms the hard components are good or not (ex for a possible loose connection in the alt) but we gotta make some progress pinning this down connect green wire alt field terminal to side reg terminal....what is side reg terminal???
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
[Re: KOS]
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06/07/16 02:35 AM
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the side terminal is the one the green wire is on in the triangle connector
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
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06/07/16 02:38 AM
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Shocktrip, the blue ign1 (run) circuit can power several circuits such as ECU/upstream side of ballast/elec choke & others. Not an issue if the connections are well soldered. only run it for several seconds just long enough to take a reading on your meter to see if the change you are making is restoring the charging rate as that high will damage things in short order. So as an update, new connector, fixed the splices the right way, now it charges normally. Thanks.
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
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06/11/16 01:02 PM
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can I persuade you to pull all the wires & jumper everything? (including ground paths). A pair of bullet connectors on the reg nubs are a good plan as they are close together/hard to access & you for sure dont want an alligator clip to come loose & touch the other! this'll elim the hard components yes you can.........i will try to get everything im gonna need tm. ok did this and tried a different ign switch...........still overcharging????? i would assume now it has to be something under the dash since ive eliminated everything else......
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
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06/11/16 01:32 PM
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You jumpered EVERYTHING & it is still overcharging? If so then it has to be one of the hard components: alt/batt/reg. holler back. EDIT & you are bypassing the ign sw/bulkhead "everything" completely when jumpering directly to batt positive post (for the blue wire feeds)
Last edited by RapidRobert; 06/11/16 02:14 PM.
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Re: overcharging nightmare help
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06/11/16 02:22 PM
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the "creeping up" that it is doing is puzzling. that ain't making sense tho it does make me think batt or alt espec batt. we have covered everything that I can think of: hard parts/bypassed wiring. which means it is something we have covered but missed/misdiagnosed. any possibility you could try another gauge or meter (I'm kinda grasping at straws but we'll get it, it just might take some (more) time). my email is in my profile
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