After much fiddling about, I think the voltage gauge on my CUCV is going nuts. It's pinging into the orange zone and scaring me that I'm gonna fry my new batteries, and it wasn't doing this last week.
With a good DVM, I'm seeing about 14.3V out of each alternator, loaded (i.e. with the batteries connected) at any speed (doesn't go up much with RPM, i.e. it's the same just past idle or at WOT, at least as WOT as the 6.2 will go
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My gasser is about 14.7V past idle on that same DVM, so I would think the alternators are okay.
Does this sound like a normal voltage range, and if so, any of y'all have experience with the CUCV voltmeters frying? I'd just go to Kragen and get a new one, but it's 24V, so it'll take longer to find a new one... and I use it to gauge when the glow plugs are done, as I don't always hear the relay *click*.
-- A
With a good DVM, I'm seeing about 14.3V out of each alternator, loaded (i.e. with the batteries connected) at any speed (doesn't go up much with RPM, i.e. it's the same just past idle or at WOT, at least as WOT as the 6.2 will go
)My gasser is about 14.7V past idle on that same DVM, so I would think the alternators are okay.
Does this sound like a normal voltage range, and if so, any of y'all have experience with the CUCV voltmeters frying? I'd just go to Kragen and get a new one, but it's 24V, so it'll take longer to find a new one... and I use it to gauge when the glow plugs are done, as I don't always hear the relay *click*.
-- A
