I decided I'd had a gutsful of gennies and regs, and got an internal regulated alternator of the three wire variety. The three terminals are B, which I understand wires to the starter solenoid, L which wires to a dash light powered from the Acc post on the ign switch, and one marked R. The L and R are the push-on variety. Am I correct in assuming the R terminal is wired to the Acc post on the ign switch? Also is there a better place to connect the B terminal to, other than the solenoid post?
they must do things different down there , up here GM internal regulated alternators have the battery terminal , and the two other " push on" terminals are marked 1 & 2 external regulated are marked R & F do you have a picture? edit: i see you never mentioned GM....what make alternator do you have?
I believe it's a jappa (!) off an 80's Mitsubishi. It was free, and it's been rebuilt. I know which of the push-ons is the light terminal, but I need to know where the other push-on gets wired to.
Get a "real" alternator and I can tell you how to wire it. We Yanks have a sour taste when Japan is mentioned.
Strangely enough, being a little colony, we dont have wrecking yards full of American cars, or ones that even have one or two American cars. We do however, have yards full of jappa shitters. Same applies to parts stores. Not my fault, I'd love to have an abundance of American stuff here.
Go with the GM 1 wire & be done with it I have installed these on every thing from AMC to Volvo. no ? they just work!
Nominal.... once again you've come through for me! Thanks heaps, that's exactly what I wanted. Mebbe I need a direct line to ya!
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