At 03:20 PM 4/23/2013, mark drillock wrote: >pressure warning light had never been a problem before. Having no >working warning light coincide with forgetting to install an oil filter Ow! That has to smart. Another lesser gotcha of running without the panel is that the alternator won't be stimulated to begin charging. I don't know whether an alternator will ever self-start, but normally the warning light circuit supplies a tickler current to the field coil to create a small initial magnetic field that is then bootstrapped as the output voltage starts rising (I know you know that, Mark). Yrs, d |
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