Re: Mutt Batteries 6TL

From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 19:38:53 PST

The symptoms will include:

Batteries going flat overnight or over some time period,
flickering lights when running,

headache, fever, bleeding from the gums, sinus infection, fallen arches,
incontinence, sexual disfunction, ...oh sorry...been watching too much
late-night TV...where was I ?...

You can prove / disprove the alternator problem by removing the large + lead
that runs from the alternator to the battery, and doing either of these:

(1) put an ammeter in series, to see how much, if any, current is leaking,
or
(2) watch carefully for a spark when you put it back on, or
(3) leave it off and see if the battery is flat after a similar length of
time.

apb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Kalin" <convoy@mtaofnj.us>
To: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
Cc: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Mutt Batteries 6TL

| Art,
| If the alternator diodes are going bad will they manifest symptoms other
| than drawing current from the batteries? The reason I am asking is that
| my truck has recently been drawing down the batteries overnight, which
| it never did before. Other than that, I am not having any problems with
| it. New batteries were tried, and it still does the same thing.
| Bruce
|
| Arthur Bloom wrote:
|
| >You have been incorrectly informed. A defective alternator, military or
| >civilian, will draw down a battery. A non-defective one will not.
| >The defect is generally shorted diodes. There are several in an
alternator.
| >If one or more short out, there will be a draw. See an alternator wiring
| >diagram, and you will understand why.
| >
| >apb
| >
|
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| USMCMTA, MVPA, MTANJ, NCMVPA
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