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Re: [GMCnet] Generator Light [message #336486 is a reply to message #336472] Wed, 29 August 2018 09:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 7:57 AM Emery Stora via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:

> Are you using the Gene Fisher UPC cable attached to the alternator?
>
> Emery Stora
>
>> On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:55 AM, Ken Burton wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Hart wrote on Wed, 29 August 2018 06:15
>>> Emory, it happened with both alternators.
>>> Will check the fuse next,
>>> Ken, checked voltage at center post of isolator. Will follow up with
>>> connector.
>>>
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>> OK, so you are about 1 volt over expected. That point should be around
> 14.7 volts give or take a few 1/10s of a volt. The other two terminals on
>> the isolator should be around 14.0 volts again give or take a few
> 1/10s.
>>
>> This is from memory and could be wrong. Thee is a sense lead that is
> connected to the big terminal on the horn relay. On that same terminal is
> the
>> fusible link connected to the isolator. The wire you want is a #12 red
> one that goes to the alternator pin #2. Along it's route it changes colors
>> from red to white. I would be reading the voltage at the horn relay and
> also at the #2 terminal at the alternator. They should be the same reading
>> and around 14.0 volts with the engine running.
>>
>>
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