Alt Replacement Options? A bit confused.

[Tonimus]

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

You must be registered for see images attach

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.

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.

 

[geocrasher]

Thanks @Tonimus. Much appreciated.

 

[Ricko1966]

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

You must be registered for see images attach

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.

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"

 

[geocrasher]

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