charging system voltage.
My truck is a 2012 Silverado 2500hd 6.0 liter gas with 40,000 miles that I've owned since new. A couple months ago I notice that the voltage gauge was running quite a bit above the 14 volt point in t...
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Battery is original with the truck and it has top posts. And I'm guessing its a flooded lead acid battery, not agm. I am also sure it has never been dead or close to dead. I will check the posts tomorrow to see if there is any corrosion. Only other thing I can think of is the truck is used for commercial snow removal and we run a fairly heavy (western wideout) plow on it and an all electric v-box salt spreader so we place a fairly heavy demand on the charging system. The truck has the plow prep package with the high output alternator so it should be designed to handle the added load.
If the terminals are clean is the consensus that 15 volts isn;t too high? And do these trucks have safeguards or warnings against continuous high voltage?
If the terminals are clean is the consensus that 15 volts isn;t too high? And do these trucks have safeguards or warnings against continuous high voltage?
