Alt Replacement Options? A bit confused.

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geocrasher said:
HAHAHAHAHA Exactly! So, at first I attempted to follow the "1 wire alternator" install, which *does* have you put the battery wire in 1.

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It didn't seem to charge, so I decided to plug the other wire in to the other side... forgetting that I needed to swap them. It started charging. Then I left it like that overnight, came out to a dead battery, disconnected both wires, got it running (and it charged, since the alternator still had magnetism in it) and the rest you know. Tada. Iterative stupidity.
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FYI, a lot of times when running a one wire alternator, you need to give it some rpms to excite it. Just for future reference.
 
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geocrasher said:
HAHAHAHAHA Exactly! So, at first I attempted to follow the "1 wire alternator" install, which *does* have you put the battery wire in 1.

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It didn't seem to charge, so I decided to plug the other wire in to the other side... forgetting that I needed to swap them. It started charging. Then I left it like that overnight, came out to a dead battery, disconnected both wires, got it running (and it charged, since the alternator still had magnetism in it) and the rest you know. Tada. Iterative stupidity.
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Don't be hard on yourself 99% of us make mistakes,we have a couple if 1%ers on here but most of us make mistakes. As to the the stupid and you make bad decisions remark. I stole that from a saying I heard years ago. "Everything happens for a reason" "Sometimes the reason is you are stupid and make bad decisions"
 
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No worries I know that saying and I love it. I smelled what you were cookin'! All my friends are the kind that'll use things like that against me, so it's all good :D
 
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