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Should my brand new Alt smell on first start?


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Guest DC Power Kyle
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Yes but you have to hook a battery up to it... You basically told the alternator to turn on and the regulator tried to up the current to charge and it went nowhere and spiked the voltage and most likely took out the rectifier and the regulator in one shot. That's like blowing up a balloon until it pops. Which in this case is the diodes in the rectifier and they clipped until they blew up.

Guest DC Power Kyle
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99% sure it's smoked and needs a new rectifier at the least. I would call us on Monday to set up and RMA

You can always hook it up and test it and if you get no output or horrible howling you know something is broken.

Guest DC Power Kyle
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Looking more closely on my phone I see that the relay power is on the alternator stud which could have saved you but won't know until you use it and see what happens.

Let me know.

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nice

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Ok, so I hooked and wired up temporarily my battery to test the alt.

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With it off the battery reads 13.1 volts
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With it running it reads 14.9 volts... So I'm all good yes???
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That looks like it is charging to me. Hopefully you got lucky this time, but I would call the DC guy and confirm with him to be sure. Fingers crossed for ya!

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