Stop in for a cup of coffee
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The battery is not supposed to supply power when the engine is running... The battery is only supposed to supply power to start the car and that's it... The alternator is supposed to take over after the engine is started and then recharge the battery to replace the energy needed to start the car...
He needs to increase the power that the alternator is putting out at idle... Bumping up the idle RPM, put it in neutral when stopped at a light will help it idle a little higher, or putting a smaller pulley on the alternator so it spins faster at lower RPM will help...
Yes. Some A/C equiped cars raised the idle slightly when the A/C was on. It was done using an idle stop solenoid with a second position.
Try to get an alternator with better low rpm output or use a smaller pulley.
Getting an actual output test of an alternator, done at 14 Volts, is like asking for some great magical mystery.
once in a blue moon you used to find this in a box with a remanufactured.
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Notice that it was done at 13.1 Volts. So it can't even be compared to the shop manual test, which is done at 15 Volts.
However 13.1 is just about high enough that the battery won't have to supply any juice. So at least its useful, unlike a test done at 12 or 12.5 Volts.
RPM is alternator, not engine.
In case your wondering, a test that was done regulating load at higher voltage would show lower max amperages
I used to do charging system tests at Sears when I was younger, we looked for voltage to be 13.3 - 15.0 volts for a good charging system...
Oh yeah, before I forget....
First...
First...
Ok, all caught up now...
But I have 73 alerts....
I will do them later...
It would only let me open 30 alerts...
I guess that's the max amount of them you can open, even if you have more 'waiting'...
Swallow Cliff?
Kids and their sliding implements of destruction fall off the cliff and are swallowed by the Earth?
Sounds like a good time to me
76!
Here are some pictures of the sledding at Swallow Cliff....
The hill...
The whole hill that used to have the toboggan slides... It's 124 steps to get all the way to the top where the control tower is... The control tower was where they controlled the gates to let the toboggans go, but is no longer used anymore... They only let sledding on the bottom half of the hill now...
Here's the bottom half where they let you sled...
Some random shots of people on the hill... (A few good wipe-outs also included....)
Here's my son on the lime green tube...
Some more random shots of sledders...
This poor little guy got a face full of snow and was not happy...
My son with a sled that you can steer a little with the handles on each side... He's wearing his go-pro...
Here's some kids recording the ride on their phone....
This poor little guy got a face full of snow and was not happy...
My son with a sled that you can steer a little with the handles on each side... He's wearing his go-pro...
Here's some kids recording the ride on their phone....
Here's some of the face full of snow and wipe-out pics....
Some more face full of snow and wipe-out pics....
Some more face full of snow and wipe-out pics....
Some more face full of snow and wipe-out pics....
Here's some Joe Cool with cool sunglasses pics....
Here's some hot shot show off pics....
People having fun pics...
People having fun pics...
Some random pics....
We had 28 mph winds... That will blow right through you...
The higher up the hill you went, the stronger the wind as it picked up as it went up the hill...
We took a few warm up breaks to keep from getting frost bite....
I heard on the news here that PG&E may be the cause of 17 wildfires....
Yeah, they file bankrupt to limit their liability...
Call Erin Brokovich....
Swallow Cliff?
Kids and their sliding implements of destruction fall off the cliff and are swallowed by the Earth?
Sounds like a good time to me
76!
It was a good time... Look at the pictures above....
Here's a few pics from the other day of odd/weird things...
The snow slowly creeping off my truck as it melts....
One of the kids put their hand prints in the hood of one of our cars....
A crooked icicle hanging off the kid's 65 Barracuda.... The wind must have been blowing one direction as it formed, then changed to another direction, then no wind as the bottom is straight downward.... It bent as it froze.... How many times to you see this????
The snow slowly creeping off my truck as it melts....
One of the kids put their hand prints in the hood of one of our cars....
A crooked icicle hanging off the kid's 65 Barracuda.... The wind must have been blowing one direction as it formed, then changed to another direction, then no wind as the bottom is straight downward.... It bent as it froze.... How many times to you see this????
Ok, I'm back to bed....
dukeboy440
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Morning all
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