Can I test the amps from my alternator like this?

[rsmith02184]

okay.....my wife says she WHOLE HEARTEDLY agrees it is time to send it in!!!! It has beaten me for now!!!!

 

[Hilltopper1950]

Private message sent

 

[Hilltopper1950]

I just joined the forum last week and found this thread very interesting. I tried to read all the replies as throughly as possible.

There is a question I had about the replacement regulator. There are a few regulators that are identical in appearance. The plug and the regulator will be physically the same, however the pin outs on the plug are different.

If you wish to contact me with a private message I will give you my contact information.

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. that's why I stopped replying to this thread. there isn't much that hasn't already been covered inthe last 18 pages. and without being next to the tractor so i can lay hands on it and poke it with some test equipment.. there's nothing left for me to do other than read other's posts. guessing at this point won't help the OP.. and all the reasonable possibilities have already been proposed.

soundguy

 

[rsmith02184]

as far as i can tell, the replacement regulator i got it is the correct one. i got it from my JD dealer and he looked it up on the computer.

plus, the replacement(s) match up identically to the original in wire color and placement of wires.

thanks for checking though

 

[Transit]

okay.....my wife says she WHOLE HEARTEDLY agrees it is time to send it in!!!! It has beaten me for now!!!!

Any results yet?

 

[jinman]

okay.....my wife says she WHOLE HEARTEDLY agrees it is time to send it in!!!! It has beaten me for now!!!!

Any results yet?

Yep! After years of marriage, his wife and he finally agree on something.:laughing:

 

[rsmith02184]

you all knew this was coming: i have not yelled called the shop to have them take a look at it. i really think i am just one wire away from solving this issue and since i have spent so much time on it already, i am not ready to give up yet.

one last thing: when the problem first happened, i looked at all the wires. the positive battery cable running from the battery to the starter had rubbed up against the exhaust pipe and the outside of the shroud had melted a LITTLE bit. i thought this might be the problem but i couldn't see any damage to the wire inside the shroud and when i probed the hole with my meter, i couldn't get any voltage reading at all which led me to believe the wire inside the shroud had not been damaged at all.

does that make sense?

also, help me out with this mystery: i had my neg. lead to the meter clamped on the negative battery terminal and when i touched my finger to the positive lead of my meter, it showed .5 DCV reading. It seemed to register this when my arms were touching the metal FEL. when i placed the positive lead of the meter directly to the metal, there was no reading.

what would cause this strange reading????

 

[Soundguy]

cheap consumer grade autoranger.

soundguy

 

[SPYDERLK]

also, help me out with this mystery: i had my neg. lead to the meter clamped on the negative battery terminal and when i touched my finger to the positive lead of my meter, it showed .5 DCV reading. It seemed to register this when my arms were touching the metal FEL. when i placed the positive lead of the meter directly to the metal, there was no reading.

what would cause this strange reading????

You probably made a weak battery out of yourself and metal. ... A good voltmeter is extremely sensitive, requiring so little input to read that even open [non connected] leads will often cause it to dither a little. When you connected both leads - - one to the neg and one to the chassis you essentially shorted them together getting Zero since no current was being drawn. If thus connected, you had then put the meter on a more sensitive scale had turned the lights on you would have seen a voltage reading telling you the V loss from the neg terminal to the ground. If you were then able to double the load the meter reading would double and so on.
larry