REFLECTOR: Bus, Battery & Electrical Instrumentation
Jim Sower
canarder at frontiernet.net
Mon Jun 20 10:44:32 CDT 2005
Ooops - forgot my other question: Does it matter if I measure right at
the B+ post on the alternator or at the Alt Relay on the firewall near
the battery? I would think not, but then, closer to the battery might
damp out some of the ripple. I don't know ... Jim S.
Wayne wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a simple way to detect out of bounds Alt ripple?
>> ... Jim S.
>>
> Now that you have reminded me I used this technique for a quick and
> dirty power supply check on the equipment I used to troubleshoot.
>
> measure the output voltage of the alternator with a decent digital
> meter set to AC volts. The ripple should be fairly low. The DC
> component will be ignored by the meter due to the AC coupling to the
> meter.
>
> Record in your logbook the value when your system was new and in good
> operating order under various load conditions. You should have a good
> clue because the ripple will jump up several hundred millivolts (for
> a 12 volt system) when a diode craps out.
>
> Wayne
>
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