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Battery or alternator kaput ?
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<blockquote data-quote="tmcg" data-source="post: 587776" data-attributes="member: 22023"><p>Sounds like you could have some voltage drop somewhere. </p><p></p><p>This could be poor wiring, earth or the alternator regulator/brushes (most likely IMHO). </p><p></p><p>You should be getting around the 14v mark at the battery with lights on and engine running. </p><p></p><p>I put a new alternator (with internal regulator) on mine and had to change the regulator a year later as the regulators don't seem great quality. </p><p> </p><p>Also the voltage wasn't dropping quite enough for the dash warning light to come on as the circuit was giving a little charge, the voltmeter told a different story. </p><p></p><p>Also worth checking wiring to the headlight bowls etc before I replaced the loom in mine the PO had bodged in household wire in to allow higher rated headlight bulbs. :shock:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tmcg, post: 587776, member: 22023"] Sounds like you could have some voltage drop somewhere. This could be poor wiring, earth or the alternator regulator/brushes (most likely IMHO). You should be getting around the 14v mark at the battery with lights on and engine running. I put a new alternator (with internal regulator) on mine and had to change the regulator a year later as the regulators don't seem great quality. Also the voltage wasn't dropping quite enough for the dash warning light to come on as the circuit was giving a little charge, the voltmeter told a different story. Also worth checking wiring to the headlight bowls etc before I replaced the loom in mine the PO had bodged in household wire in to allow higher rated headlight bulbs. :shock: [/QUOTE]
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