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Old 12-09-2016, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by 1795 View Post
Not sure what your electrical set up is, but some alternators require a feedback loop to charge. I had to wire in an idiot light on one car for the alternator to start charging the battery.
And if the bulb burns out, you lose the excite circuit. Took my a while to figure that out last year. Now I have a resistor wired in parallel just in case.
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