farmer boy
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I have 1998 Toyota Camry. While driving the battery will die. The car will act funny, run rough when it's like this. The battery will drain slowly when left sitting.
Replaced the battery, no more slowly dying but the car still drains down when driving.
I started the car and put a good fluke amp clamp on the alternator output wire. It will run the blower on high, and the brights at idle. Reads about 52 amps on the display.
Increasing the rpm will not bring the number up.
If you 'dead head' all the power windows, it will climb to about 70 amps, if you increase rpms if will climb to 95 amps. The alternator acts like it's working perfectly when cold, but not working when hot. Will alternator's output decrease to nothing when hot if it's bad.?
Replaced the battery, no more slowly dying but the car still drains down when driving.
I started the car and put a good fluke amp clamp on the alternator output wire. It will run the blower on high, and the brights at idle. Reads about 52 amps on the display.
Increasing the rpm will not bring the number up.
If you 'dead head' all the power windows, it will climb to about 70 amps, if you increase rpms if will climb to 95 amps. The alternator acts like it's working perfectly when cold, but not working when hot. Will alternator's output decrease to nothing when hot if it's bad.?