rash your sketch & do it like this:(quoted from post at 10:20:02 01/08/13) You guys...on one hand, these meters don't help much...but, I do want it wired to be like how it was stock...
So should I move the alternator wire to directly hook to the battery(I sense a huge shower of sparks)...I'm so bad at this stuff...
ope you are not still looking at your first posted diagram. Don't. At least 3 conditions can exist here. 1)The alternator is doing nothing (belt broke), so the battery has to power all loads (ignition, lights....), so current (conventional) leaves + batt post, to ammeter (-), through ammeter (-) to (+) {running current through it in this direction makes it indicate a neg or discharge}, and on to & through the load & out opposite load terminal through chassis & back to battery neg(_) termimal, this completing the loop. 2) New belt on alternator, but battery is dead as a door-nail, so you use a jump box to start tractor. Alternator outputting current, flows to junction block, where the alternator current value splits, with some part supplying loads (ign, lights...) AND some part finding a path through the ammeter and on to the battery{current is passing through ammeter from (+) to (-)and on into battery(+) post {running current through it in this direction makes it indicate a positive or charge}. Thus the ammeter indicates the amount of battery charge current. On a dead or near dead battery, this will be large, but as battery nears full charge, the reading will trickle off to nearly zero. 3) As battery reaches full charge, the alternator will be providing current for the loads and the in/out battery current is virtually zero. So we have three cases, 1) battery supplying all loads, 2)alternator both charging battery & supplying all loads, and 3) battery loafing & alternator supplying all loads.(quoted from post at 08:59:31 01/09/13) So back to what baffles me-given a single alt wire going to a junction block out of which comes a wire that runs to the ammeter + side, and then the - side goes to the solenoid, and from there, to the battery + side, if current flows from the alternator, and from the battery, how does that work? How does the battery charge if current flows out of the + battery post?
)maybe you didn't wire it the way you think you did, 2)alternator bad, 3)left key or lights on when last used, 4) maybe battery not really dead....hydrometer?. Bad, dirty, loose connection can appear to be dead battery to some folks.(quoted from post at 17:16:09 01/12/13) Typical for me. Go out to start the tractor, dead. Battery (new in summer) is dead. Hilarious.
Someone wanna offer why based on the fact that I wired it like the diagram?
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