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Just a thought . If your battery is below 12 volts with the ignition off, then it will take an average alternator at least an hour to fully charge it., so you should maybe run it for some time to see if the battery will charge .
A worn out battery will show 13.9-14.5 volts quite quickly, but a new battery will take some time. In my case the my volt meter will show something like 13.6 volts for about 1/2 hour .
So maybe just give it time.
Regards Philip A
PhilipA wrote
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>A fully charged battery will have 12.7-12.9 volts with the ignition turned OFF.
Within a few minutes of starting the engine the voltage at the battery terminals should be 13.9-14.5 volts with no headlights or accessories on, because an alternator must charge at 14.5 volts to charge a 12 volt battery.
If you only have 12.9 volts with the engine running the battery will never charge. There is something wrong with your alternator or the charging circuit.
A battery is only an energy storage device. Once the engine starts the car electrical system relies on the alternator to run everything and maintain the battery.
As others have suggested maybe you have not connected the exciter which goes through the dash bulb,. If the dash light goes on at ign turn on and off while running then generally your earths are OK, as the bulb measures the difference in electricity between the alternator and the battery.
The most likely explanation is a damaged alternator. [/b][/quote]
yep it is not going up even after running for 15 min
and the ING light is not coming on just went to have a look :evil:
must check in the morning maybe thats all whats wrong [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
and i didn't have to change the alternator at all :oops:
Well like the new one better 80amp vers 25amp :roll:
let you know tomorrow
kai
Hi kaistuff, are you sure you are reading the multi meter correctly or more to the point, are you taking your readings from a sound location.
The reason I ask is that for your battery to be at 12.6 or more, the alternator and voltage reg have to be operating at at least 13.8 and it doesn’t matter what sort of battery you have, again for the battery to read 12.6, it is fully charged and to get any vehicle battery to a fully charged level, your vehicle has to be putting out 13.8 minimum.
Even if this reading was taken while the motor is running, the battery would still go flat pretty quickly if the vehicle was only putting out 12.6 or what ever.
Another explanation might be that you have an intermittent fault where your vehicle does produce the 14 volts for a time.
Cheers and have fun finding that problem.
Hi all
another 2 hr in the garage 8) and i have located the problem
Regulator is not working :evil: :evil:
So when i bypassed the regulator i had the ignition light [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
and after starting the engine the multimeter rose to about 14.3 volts
be for i turned the engine of [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
but had no luck getting a new regulator to day [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]
<span style="color:red">River do you have a spare one :?: :?: :?: :wink: </span>
will get one tomorrow and then it will be fixed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
(my old alternator had the same problem )
now i have 80 Amp instead of 25 Amp [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
thanks for all the grate advise and help
till the next problem
thanks Kai
Hi
Problem fixed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
all working well
thanks to all again
Kai