Alternator Not Charging Chassis Battery
1996 Lazy Daze on a Chevy P30 chassis. I have an alternator that is not charging. The simple answer might be that it is the alternator but these Chevies have an "exciter" circuit that determines wh...
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Yes it's the truck/starter battery. Is it possible that a load on a severely depleted house batter (two Trojan 6 volts in this case) would load down the alt so much? I have never seen below 13.x volts on a running vehicle but I don't want to replace the alt unless I'm sure it needs it.
Given that I do see the voltage at the E leg of the isolator, I do suspect that it is indeed the alternator as I understand that is either "on" or "off". Is that correct?
I was going to try a "hail Mary" of disconnecting the house batts and seeing how it runs with just the truck battery (what I always thought was called the chassis batter but who knew).
Thanks again.
Given that I do see the voltage at the E leg of the isolator, I do suspect that it is indeed the alternator as I understand that is either "on" or "off". Is that correct?
I was going to try a "hail Mary" of disconnecting the house batts and seeing how it runs with just the truck battery (what I always thought was called the chassis batter but who knew).
Thanks again.
