battery dash light

[Smoody]

the battery dash light keeps coming on then back off the last few times I used it, sometimes the light is fully lit other times it dim, seems like a loose wire maybe.

What will this light come on for if there is a real issue, bad battery or alternator /voltage regulator? will this light come on if the battery is bad?

 

[winston1]

I believe it correctly comes on if you are not getting 12.5+ volts thru the regulator. Put a voltmeter on the battery before cranking and after cranking and compare. If you don't have an increase you have a bad alternator or regualator. I don't think the light would come on with a bad battery unless the charging system is bad.

 

[Neat 1500]

Agreed, usually an indication of no charge to battery. either faulty reg,alternator or bad wiring to or at the point the output wiring goes to (battery or starter motor)

 

[normde2001]

the battery dash light keeps coming on then back off the last few times I used it, sometimes the light is fully lit other times it dim, seems like a loose wire maybe.

What will this light come on for if there is a real issue, bad battery or alternator /voltage regulator? will this light come on if the battery is bad?

Are you referring to the low battery water light or the charge light?

 

[Smoody]

the light on the top left of the panel, now that you asked that Norm its the light with a battery icon, the charge light has a lightning bolt icon correct? its in the lower right....The water in the battery is at the correct level, so that points to loose wire?

 

[normde2001]

the light on the top left of the panel, now that you asked that Norm its the light with a battery icon, the charge light has a lightning bolt icon correct? its in the lower right....The water in the battery is at the correct level, so that points to loose wire?

Yep, you have to find the ends of the wires, near the battery, and short them together. Unless you have an original Japanese battery, the light does not work.

 

[Smoody]

why now after 3 years of running it would the wires need to be shorted together? the light has never came on ever, bit confused.

doubt its original battery but i have never changed it and this machine came in and I purchased it off the container.

 

[Willl]

low battery water light

Huh ?, never heard of one of those.

 

[HoyeTractor]

There is a little info about it here

battery water level light



Aaron
Hoye Tractor Parts
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[tallyho8]

If you do not want to short out the wires on your low battery light to make it useless when you do not have a Japanese battery there are other alternatives.

The low water sending unit is a small unit with a float similar to a gas tank float that replaces one of the 6 battery caps on a Japanese battery. It is possible, not easy but possible, to make one to fit into an American battery.

Or, you can do like I did and make a switch for your parking brake that activates that light when your parking brake is on. I forgot to take off my parking brake so many times that this light has proven to be very useful this way.

I just used an old refrigerator fan switch that turns on the freezer fan motor when you shut the door and I rigged it to the parking brake lever so that when you push the brake down the switch opens and the light comes on just like when you open the freezer door and the fan goes off. You just run the 2 wires from the battery sending unit to the switch.

If you are artistic enough you can replace the little light cover with one that says "BRAKE" on it.

 

[Smoody]

I am almost positive I do not have a japenese battery and the light has never came on, still curious as to what would make it come on and back off now after 3 years of use.

 

[HoyeTractor]

Or, you can do like I did and make a switch for your parking brake that activates that light when your parking brake is on.

Genius! :thumbsup:

Aaron
Hoye Tractor Parts
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[normde2001]

why now after 3 years of running it would the wires need to be shorted together? the light has never came on ever, bit confused.

doubt its original battery but i have never changed it and this machine came in and I purchased it off the container.

I'm afraid that's above my pay grade; however, the paper clip worked loose on mine once.

 

[careyo63]

Check your Fuse Panel Smoody. Same thing was happening to my YM 2000 first of last Yr. Had me going also. My alt. light would all the sudden start to flicker for no reason.I could turn my switch off and wait a few minutes and it may or may not start flickering again when I turned the switch back on. But still it was always chargeing, Drove me Nuts. It was not the Connection/Fuse screw but I found the Scew below it to be lose and dirty. Been over a Yr.no problems at all.My charge System and connections was the biggest PITA to get finally straightened out.
If that doesn't do it.
Are you sure It's not one of those Japanese Bonzi Batteries

Carey

 

[tallyho8]

I am almost positive I do not have a japenese battery and the light has never came on, still curious as to what would make it come on and back off now after 3 years of use.

First: Check to see if you have a Japanese battery. If there are 2 small wires going into one of the battery covers, then it is a Japanese battery and has the low water sensor connected up. The the light will blink or come on if your water is low in that cell.

If you do not have a Japanese battery, someone had probably tied those 2 wires together to make the light go out and they might have come loose.

 

[clemsonfor]

why now after 3 years of running it would the wires need to be shorted together? the light has never came on ever, bit confused.

doubt its original battery but i have never changed it and this machine came in and I purchased it off the container.

Maybe the wires were already shorted togeather and they have either corroded enough to make a bad connection or they have vibrated loose? Find them and see.

 

[clemsonfor]

Check your Fuse Panel Smoody. Same thing was happening to my YM 2000 first of last Yr. Had me going also. My alt. light would all the sudden start to flicker for no reason.I could turn my switch off and wait a few minutes and it may or may not start flickering again when I turned the switch back on. But still it was always chargeing, Drove me Nuts. It was not the Connection/Fuse screw but I found the Scew below it to be lose and dirty. Been over a Yr.no problems at all.My charge System and connections was the biggest PITA to get finally straightened out.
If that doesn't do it.
Are you sure It's not one of those Japanese Bonzi Batteries

Carey

Carey, mine does this but only at low RPMs, it will flicker or steady blink if im below about 1000 and sometimes this last weeked it did it even about 1200rpms. But it usually occurs around 800-900rpms, everyso often it dosent blink at all. I just live with it, i think i traced mine down to what seems like the carging post on the alt, to be too loose internally. I cleaned and tightened the connection and it helped a while but has returned. I am just living with it as it charges while working it so im confident the bat is getting charged even if the blinks at that moment are not allowing it to charge, its getting plenty of charge each use. It is annoying though.

 

[careyo63]

[QUOTE = It is annoying though.

:laughing: I know what you mean Clemson. All that I went through getting my wireing and chargeing straightend out and still had that going on was PMO. Pretty simple electrical sys. so I was bound and determind to keep from having to put up with that BS :ashamed:
Funny your problem sounds about the same as Mine and Smoodys. If I was a betting man back to a Loose or Bad connection since we can rule out the bonzi battery fixing to take a dive

Carey

 

[California]

Could be the indicator light socket busbar has corroded. The busbar between sockets is hot, while each bulb separately goes to ground through the temp etc sensors.

I had to replace my dash lights assembly as part of my initial renovation. This whole mess on the right was just dangling (and flickering) when I bought the tractor.

That and the headlight sockets (since replaced) were the only rotten plastic I found - and nearly the only plastic on the entire tractor. I hate to think what a modern tractor with more plastic will look like after 30 years!

 

[clemsonfor]

That and the headlight sockets (since replaced) were the only rotten plastic I found - and nearly the only plastic on the entire tractor. I hate to think what a modern tractor with more plastic will look like after 30 years!

I will look like my uncles JD 4400. You cant read the top of the plastic gearshifts or the sticker hardly from the fading and cracks. That and you hood had a 2 foot crack in it from where it just decided to bust open one summer day letting a little cool trickle of water in for Auxillary cooling!

His tractor is 12 years old, maybe 11. Has 1300 hours on it Jumps out of 2 gears in C range plus the cosmetic issues i mentioned, oh and the foam that is under the canopy that helps to insulate has fallen out. Olnly leak is in the front steering knuckle for the FWD.