All: Problem solved. This was likely elementary to all of you and if I had my Bentley, I would have hopefully solved sooner. Male spade terminal coming out the back of the alt was the proper place to connect the blue exciter wire. I cut off the newly attached ring terminal. Added a new female spade terminal. Plugged everything back up...and VOILA! No more battery light. Thinking back to my original breakdown...it was likely the culprit all along. But thanks to Advance, I do have a new alternator and new battery for $0! Battery is showing 14+ volts while running! Thanks to all for your help. Now back to my "list" of fixing stuff. Bobby On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote: > That blue wire has to be hooked up to start the mag field in the rotor. > Once energized, the stator provides the current to the rotor. > But, the blue needs to provide the initial current to get the ball rolling. > > |
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