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Skid steer alternator question
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<blockquote data-quote="donald73d" data-source="post: 80712" data-attributes="member: 6074"><p>A normal alternator has 3 wires plus ground. Output, sense and excite. The excite needs to be switched via key. The sense can see the battery voltage all the time and not discharge the battery. If you swap the sense and excite it will run and charge but will discharge when the engine is off (alternator may be warm). Some have a singe wire alternator which is self exciting. Bobcat has used Mando (Korean) alternator (Mercruiser does also). They seem to be decent until they fail and then forget rebuilding them. I would consider having the alternator checked at a shop that rebuilds alternator/starters. The shops are becoming harder to find but they are still out there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donald73d, post: 80712, member: 6074"] A normal alternator has 3 wires plus ground. Output, sense and excite. The excite needs to be switched via key. The sense can see the battery voltage all the time and not discharge the battery. If you swap the sense and excite it will run and charge but will discharge when the engine is off (alternator may be warm). Some have a singe wire alternator which is self exciting. Bobcat has used Mando (Korean) alternator (Mercruiser does also). They seem to be decent until they fail and then forget rebuilding them. I would consider having the alternator checked at a shop that rebuilds alternator/starters. The shops are becoming harder to find but they are still out there. [/QUOTE]
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