wait to start light
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Ok, when you first turn the key on the glow plugs continually burn for anywhere from 1-20 seconds then the wait light turns off and the glow plugs begin the "afterglow" cycle where the relay clicks on and off to keep the glow plugs at a certain temperature. They do that for about thirty seconds to keep the fuel burning until combustion heats the cylinders up.
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Originally Posted by spikebee
Ok, when you first turn the key on the glow plugs continually burn for anywhere from 1-20 seconds then the wait light turns off and the glow plugs begin the "afterglow" cycle where the relay clicks on and off to keep the glow plugs at a certain temperature. They do that for about thirty seconds to keep the fuel burning until combustion heats the cylinders up.
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When you turn the key 'on' the glow plugs heat up (10 - 12 sec ) lite goes out you fire up. The controller will cycle for +/-10 sec (volt meter will drop down to 6-8v - interior lite will dim etc). Then should be normal.
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Actually I read that they can cycle on and off like that for up to 2 minutes
When mine is doing the cycling the Volt guage goes almost down to 8 volts.
Is this normal?
Is this normal?
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