Does your charge warning light work ?

I may be wrong , but I seem to remember that an alternator needs the charge
warning light to be working for it to work , something to do with the
inducing magnetism thing I think

Which teminal its wired to I couldnt tell you (well I could but i might be
wrong) , any car workshop manual should be able to point you in the right
direction.

Hope this helps


"boatyboaty" wrote in message
om...
Fitted a brand new Lucas Alternator to small boat diesel engine - no
charge to batteries - wiring checked and ok - Alternator brushes and
diodes all checked out ok - some one told me you have to induce
magnetism into a new Alternator by running it under load at over 2000
revs - my engine wont go that fast - someone else told me you can
shock it - Q how what terminals etc

Cheers BB