Alternator issue

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by hlev00

Yes. The light is critical. Well, not really the light but the current that result when the circuit is completed and the light comes on. On yanmar alt there is a T plug that brings this to the back of the alternator. Read the earlier reference on alternators.

I'm going to have to file this away, because I would have never believed the excitation voltage would have come through the fail light, seems a stupid way to wire it, burn out a bulb and lose your charging system, wonder what the logic was?

[Stu Jackson]

Originally Posted by Swiss sailor

- do I realy rely on a bulb at ghe pannel? Is this normal? Or could it be wired differently, less prone to failure?
Marco

Glad we could help. The answer to that is in my reply #7 on page 1.