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Lost my alternator tonight coming home and about ten miles out. First my radio died, then my lights started going dim. I was looking for UFO's, it's a pretty lonely streach of highway this time of night. I figured out I was having a charging problem and turned everything off except the lights on low beam. I fell in behind a semi and just cruised. By the time I got home the lights were so dim I was driving by moonlight. By the time I pulled into my driveway the lights were totaly dead, I just turned them off and drove out to the house. I grabbed my VOM and it has 4 volts in the batt. The thing that I learned was that at 4 volts the FI, the computer and EECIV was still working fine and the engine never missed a beat. Lucky for me because it's snowing at the moment.
I wonder how low the voltage can get before the electronics quit? Hmmmmmmm............ *G*.
Hal
Love hard, drive fast, wear your seat belt.
PS, that's my 'bird...... My Mustang is too ugly to take pictures of yet........*G*.
http://www.teleport.com/~cosa/bird2.jpg
I wonder how low the voltage can get before the electronics quit? Hmmmmmmm............ *G*.
Hal
Love hard, drive fast, wear your seat belt.
PS, that's my 'bird...... My Mustang is too ugly to take pictures of yet........*G*.
http://www.teleport.com/~cosa/bird2.jpg