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Old Apr 1, 2014 | 12:10 PM
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Bad alt./battery?

I was driving the other day and my motor started bogging down almost dying. I noticed my volt gauge was bottomed out at 10v or so and figured that was the cause. Replaced the alt. got a jump and it all seemed to be good at 14v then it jumped to 16v then back to 10-11v and started bogging. Replaced the battery today and same thing. Still reading no more than 11v.

What could cause this? Fried the new alt. with a bad battery? Is there anything in the charging system that could have failed that I didn't notice? Thanks!
 
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Old Apr 1, 2014 | 12:58 PM
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Bad alternator,or regulator. Are you running an internal or external regulator? More than likely the alt. however.
 
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Internal reg. So even though it's less than 2 days old it's probably the alt?
 
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