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Old 09-30-2007, 07:11 PM   #1
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Default Weird charging symptoms solved!

Battery died today in the middle of a parade. Was going very slow and starting and stopping a lot, my guess was it wasn't charging very well at the slow speed. Got it home, charged it, and tested the charging system... jacked rear up and ran engine. Seemed OK, overcharging a little (spiked to 15V a few times. Took it for a drive with meter on terminals and got the WEIRDEST readings. Driving normally yielded a pretty normal charging voltage (aprox. 14V), but when I slowed down to a crawl (speed at parade), I got a -1.000 reading on my multimeter display. It also flashed a whole bunch of numbers between the negative #. I have NO IDEA what is wrong here! Stopped, it was normal battery voltage. Reverse also caused the meter to read negative.

What is going on here!?! I am planning on changing the OLD SCHOOL mechanical voltage regulator with a solid state 80's model regulator. I found some instructions on another forum on how to do it. I will check with author for permission to copy them here, they are very good directions.


ANY light on this problem would be GREAT!! Thanks!

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Old 10-13-2007, 03:33 PM   #2
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Default Re: Weird charging symptoms...

I purchased a new VR from Ron and installed it as per directions I found online. The install went smoothly and now my charging system works like it is supposed to! Here are some pics of the install, because I like pics.


New VR.


Old VR.


Connections made up.


Blurry... inside of old VR. It smelled like burnt electronics.


Installed and ready to go!!


Thanks again Ron!!
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Old 10-13-2007, 03:58 PM   #3
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Wasn't that Matt's?
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Wasn't that Matt's?
No, he tested his and it was dead so I bought a new one through Ron!
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You must have been doing some pretty serious calculations on that thing with that TI-83 Plus.

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You must have been doing some pretty serious calculations on that thing with that TI-83 Plus.

C++ programming my friend!! Was doing a time calculating program and had to validate all the outputs to make sure they were all correct!

So basically, yes.
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