But still want to know about why the loss of voltage as was asked about earlier.
Loss of charging was what precipitated my replacing the alternator. After replacing the alternator, I still had low voltage as indicated by a voltmeter plugged into the cigarette lighter (and a status indicator wired to the chassis batter).
When I whacked the house battery charging solenoid, and then got back in the vehicle, the volts were back up to 14.0 volts. So I assumed that the Charging Solenoid had something to do with the chassis charging circuit.
Now I see it does not.
So I don't know what caused the drop-out.
