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XPost: sci.electronics.repair
From: rcres@XXnewsguy.com
"Sparky" wrote in message
news:0001HW.D1073825006CBD3AB01029BF@news.eternal-september.org...
> Last year the alternator on my Toyota cooked the stator windings. I didnıt
> look any further and replaced it with a rebuilt alternator & regulator
> from
> the local parts supplier.
>
> Now (7 or 8 months later) the replacement has failed in the same mode. Iım
> suspicious. Also confused:
>
> If a diode opens there wouldnıt be an increased load on the stator
> windings.
> If a diode shorts, there also wouldnıt be any increase, just a decrease in
> DC
> output voltage.
>
> If the alternator output is shorted, since itıs connected directly to the
> battery (+) terminal, this would result in smoke and fire, at least a
> burnt
> fusible link. None of this has occurred. (Well, the windings are
> discolored
> and the smell is what clued me in to these problems.) When I put in a
> replacement alternator Iım quite confident everything will look just fine.
> Until next time.
>
> What could cause these symptoms? Twice?
>
> Thanks!
Did you change the battery any time after the alternator was changed or is
it the same one still?
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