Alternator overload? Is this possible?
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Alternator overload? Is this possible?
Recently had a new alternator installed. Never thought I'd have this problem again...
Was driving down rt 80 this morning while using the following things:
1. headlights
2. radar detector (cig lighter)
3. CD player
4. Defroster/heat
All of a sudden, everything on my center console in the dash (clock, radio, radar detector) all shut off. I turned off my headlights in an attempt to minimize the load on the alternator. Sure enough, after about 5 minutes, all the electronics came back on. Good as new.
What the hell happened?
Was driving down rt 80 this morning while using the following things:
1. headlights
2. radar detector (cig lighter)
3. CD player
4. Defroster/heat
All of a sudden, everything on my center console in the dash (clock, radio, radar detector) all shut off. I turned off my headlights in an attempt to minimize the load on the alternator. Sure enough, after about 5 minutes, all the electronics came back on. Good as new.
What the hell happened?
you were abducted by aliens. that 5 minutes you thought you waited was actually a time warp in which they implanted a hidden flux capacitor in your left earlobe. lol i dont really know, sounds like a short somewhere?
that depends on what you have plugged in. lighting a cigarette draws way less current than charging an ipod, running some neon lights, or a radar detector. Shouldnt be more than 15A, but im not sure
Originally Posted by RockfordMax
you were abducted by aliens. that 5 minutes you thought you waited was actually a time warp in which they implanted a hidden flux capacitor in your left earlobe. lol i dont really know, sounds like a short somewhere?
Thats happened to me as well... I dont know what it is but I'd like to find out
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