Though I would throw this in there since I used search and found a few hits but not in my case. Last week went to crank the Bronco(1992)and had no power jumped the truck off checking the battery / alternator and was reading 14.35 volts . recharged the battery and after sitting over night it was ok at 5 am . Came home from work to find it was completely drained again. When I got time (few days later) I found the wires (2 hot to alternator ) and the white wire (single wire to alt) were touching .Hot wire (black orange stripe),white, next wire over which had a crack in it touching each other . After replacing both, all fixed . Any one know what the white wire does for this alternator. thanks TR (I see it in the Haynes with no explanation)

 

My '95 electrical & vacuum t/s manual shows a white wire with black stripes used as feedback voltage to turn off the charge indicator.

I do not see a solid white wire in the charging system or the power distribution system (only glanced at that one).

Where does the white wire go, e.g. from alt to where?

 

Thanks Zombie, that wire was white with a black strip , charge indicator, the hot wire black/orange stripe and charge indicator white/black stripe were touching together killing my battery. TR