Alternator question

westend wrote:

path1 wrote:
I have appointment tomorrow to get new tires, about 6 miles total driving. I don't want to re-schedule appointment as I need m/h next Monday.

But I'm waiting for elec part to come in. The part is what is called "shortstop" and I couldn't find any locally. Right now my pos and neg are disconnected at house battery and at the converter. All metal ends of battery cables taped up, so no contact with metal.

Question...When driving it, will the charge line under hood sense no power and do damage to alt? Or will charge line sense circuit is not complete not put out power?

In your other post about electrical problems, I suggested, along with others, you visit an auto parts store and buy an auto resetting circuit breaker.

I guess you are soliciting ideas here about your problems and then taking a "shotgun" approach to solving them. But, of course, you're free to do what you wish. The next time you have that "Shortstop" trip and can't find the problem or run your new batteries down to oblivion, you may think again about replacement choices.

Next month or in Sept, after back pocket recovers from buying tires, going to go with PD converter. Not sure which one, but will be PD as I've nothing but great about them on here. Doesn't look to hard, (on the surface). But its electrical(my bad spot) so going run by our RV guy first.

Remember, I needed this part fast and as far as which circuit breaker or substitute for it, (at the time), I couldn't tell you one from another. Tried NAPA and they only had type 1, non resettable. But I pick it up and used it to see if I found what my problem was with converter and making connection to batteries. (Why didn't I just volt meter? Because I didn't think of that at the time) But I wanted exactly what was OEM. I try to stay OEM.I've replaced to many waterpumps, starters,etc that say OEM and free replacement. But also found that doesn't count time or missing skin on knuckels on what was supposed to be OEM or better.

Thanks