From: ke6myk@sbcglobal.net
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 16:49:10 PDT
"Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
> I may have found part (Notice I said "part") of my trouble today. I found
> that I failed to put the ground wire back on the alternator.
>
> Okay, now when I turn on the ignition switch the glow plug light goes out
> and the needle is in the amber and if I don't start it right away after a
> few seconds I hear a click like a circuit breaker got too hot and at that
> time the needle goes over to the right to green and then jumps back to amber
> and after a few short seconds it clicks again and this process goes on until
> I start it or turn the ignition off. Is this simply the glow plug
> controller clicking and resetting or is that a circuit breaker going nuts
> because a hot wire is touching something it isn't supposed to?
That sounds like the normal behavior of the glow plug controller
cycling the plugs on and off. The voltage drops into the yellow range
when they're on, because they draw a very large current.
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