Date:         Sun, 5 Oct 2003 08:12:31 -0700
Reply-To:     trooz <trooz@ADELPHIA.NET>
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From:         trooz <trooz@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject:      exciter wire?
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I've recently had another alternator installed--the second one this
year--and a new battery.  Last week I had a dead battery while on the
road.  A local mechanic, after spending three days tracing what appears
to be an intermittent charging problem, gave the van back with the
admonition that *it's working now, but I don't like that alternator.*
He did say that the exciter wire to the alternator should be carrying
twelve volts but it isn't, and after driving around with no problems for
a few days, yesterday I had a dead battery again.

The original alternator was replaced while on the road a couple hundred
miles from home, so I didn't want to drive back up there just for a
replacement under warranty.  Now I'm suspecting that the problem may not
be the alternator at all.  Does anyone have any ideas?

TIA.

Bob Trousdale
90 Westy