Another charging question

[elkarcher]

Ok I have the 302 EFI and the Exp serp set up. its not charging at all. My alt is brand new as of about 1 hr ago. Battery is at 12.07 with key off and running its the same. the alt is at 14.7. I have the centech/RJM harness combo. any help would be great. Not sure if i have something hooked up wrong.

Also do I need a seperate ground for the Alt? I figured it should be grounded pretty good thorough the mounts.

Thanks Tim

 

[Viperwolf1]

What do you have hooked up to where now? Easier for you to tell us then for us to guess 100 different senarios.

 

[elkarcher]

I got the adapter from RJM and thought i would be good to go. This plugs into the 1 wire for the Alt on the RJM harness and then hooks up to the Alt

 

[Viperwolf1]

See if that green-red wire has 12V with key on. How come I don't see an output cable coming from the alt?

 

[elkarcher]

Its got 11.75 so pretty close.

 

[beaux312]

where is the cable that is suppose to go from the alt to the battery

 

[Viperwolf1]

where is the cable that is suppose to go from the alt to the battery

Yes, or starter solenoid.

 

[elkarcher]

where is the cable that is suppose to go from the alt to the battery

That might be what im missing. I dont have one. I can just run it from the yellow/white wire terminal to the pos side of the battery

 

[Viperwolf1]

That might be what im missing. I dont have one. I can just run it from the yellow/white wire terminal to the pos side of the battery

Yes but it needs to be about a 6 ga wire. 130 amps is a lot of current.

 

[beaux312]

no the lug on the aly suppose to have a cable going to the pos side of the battery

 

[beaux312]

I got the 2ga cable from JBG and ran it to the batt side of the starter solenoid

 

[elkarcher]

Ya lots of amps. Thanks guys dont know how the hell i missed that.

 

[DirtDonk]

You were thinking that it was for the Yellow wire, when in fact that wire is supposed to just be sharing the post with the actual charge wire.

Since you have a Centech, what did you do with the large Yellow "ALT+" or "BAT+" wire? Is it hooked to the starter solenoid/relay along with it's counterpart Red "BAT+" wire? Whatever you do, don't leave it laying around unattended.

Paul

 

[elkarcher]

You were thinking that it was for the Yellow wire, when in fact that wire is supposed to just be sharing the post with the actual charge wire.

Since you have a Centech, what did you do with the large Yellow "ALT+" or "BAT+" wire? Is it hooked to the starter solenoid/relay along with it's counterpart Red "BAT+" wire? Whatever you do, don't leave it laying around unattended.

Paul

I capped it off with a few other wires for later use.