[DeTomaso] smokin Pantera

[SOBill at aol.com]

Check out 
_http://www.panteraplace.com/Electrical/BATTERY%20CHARGING%20SYSTEM%20(PAGE%201).pdf_ 
(http://www.panteraplace.com/Electrical/BATTERY%20CHARGING%20SYSTEM%20(PAGE%201).pdf) .  The diagram is shown with the key on and the 
engine not running. Power comes  thru the key, through the GEN light, thru Relay 
1, thru the alternator field  coil to ground. The GEN light will be on and the 
field coil will be energized so  battery charging charging can begin.
 
If all the connections between the regulator and the  alternator are open, it 
is possible that the GEN light could be on due to  current thrugh the bottom 
resistor just to the left of Relay 1 on the  diagram.
 
If the GEN is on, and you don't want it on, and you don't want to  fuss with 
connectors/pigtails, just pull the connector off the OEM voltage  regulator.
 
Have fun,
 
SOBill  Taylor
sobill at aol.com  

 
In a message dated 3/26/2008 10:11:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, MikeLDrew  
writes:


In a message dated  3/26/08 10 06 11, SOBill at aol.com writes:





Since the wiring from the OEM voltage regulator  to  the OEM alternator is not
connected to the one wire new  alternator,  there is no ground path for the
GEN light to  illuminate.




Interesting.  My distinct rememberance from  Dennis Quella's one-wire 
alternator instructions is that the bulb must be  removed from the GEN light when you 
install it, or the light will remain lit  all the time.

With my almost complete ignorance of electricity, I  thought that when the 
key was on and the engine not running, current flowed in  one direction and 
illuminated the light, but when the engine was started and  the alternator started 
charging, *something* changed and the light was  extinguished.  That's how it 
alerts you to failure--when the alternator  conks out with the key on, the 
light comes on.

Mike


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