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(Message started by: Mike H on Mar 5^th, 2013, 11:29am)

Title: Charging Fixed!
Post by Mike H on Mar 5^th, 2013, 11:29am

Turned out thick wire from alternator B+ to battery was bad, intermittent contact. Alt was swapped as well but original probably still OK, but as I'd got the spare (fr. Spikies), might as well put it on.

Symptoms were -
Battery discharged after a week of (very) occasional use, always needs charger to recover.

Holds charge if car not used (is not a current drain).

Won't charge when engine running, or might only if it feels like it, depends. Volts may be random between 11.? to 13.?.

Total electrical failure on a longer journey, but recovers after a few seconds. Had this happen twice, 1st time 2 years ago! I can now see that this was a case of running on batt only until the Voltage difference was so big that it forced the bad alternator wire to conduct, then it would work again.

Anyway dash diagnostic display now reads 14.1 on idle. Result http://livinginthepast-audioweb.co.uk/images/misc/yes_smiley.gif

HTH

Title: Re: Charging Fixed!
Post by Simmo on Mar 5^th, 2013, 1:00pm

Mike, glad you are sorted and more to the point an excellent 'blow by blow' account which will surely help others in the future. I have posted it in How to Do Things. Thanks, Mike. :)

Title: Re: Charging Fixed!
Post by Mike H on Mar 5^th, 2013, 5:17pm

Ta muchly, hoped it would be useful 'cause it has been difficult to tie down what exactly was going on.

Forgot to mention, dash warning light always worked normally, so you'd think it's not a charging problem, yes? lol .. ;D

Title: Re: Charging Fixed!
Post by Mike H on Mar 5^th, 2013, 5:27pm

Er you didn't mention in the 'How To' version it was caused by a bad B+ cable. Otherwise lovely

Title: Re: Charging Fixed!
Post by Simmo on Mar 5^th, 2013, 9:23pm

on 03/05/13 at 17:27:46, Mike H wrote:

Er you didn't mention in the 'How To' version it was caused by a bad B+ cable. Otherwise lovely

Thank you Mike. Now as if by magic............all corrected ;D

Title: Re: Charging Fixed!
Post by Mike H on Mar 6^th, 2013, 2:06pm

http://livinginthepast-audioweb.co.uk/images/misc/th_thumbsup.gif