Yeah I like my 1 wire modded 3G 200A But I had to grind part of one of the screw heads to make it fit...lol

And to recap the stock ford setup
YouTube - Ford externally regulated alternator wiring

[edit] sweet, if you play my vid on youtube it's got the vuvuzela button on the player LOL [/edit]

 

wtf is a "vuvuzela" button? lol

 

ok im full flied on the alt how to i stop that

 

Well a vuvuzela is those annoying horns that have been making a big deal at the soccer games. They sound kind of like an annoying swarm of angry bees. Youtube added a vuvuzela horn button to a bunch of their videos. It's on the player control bar and looks like a soccer ball between the resolution selection box and the closed caption button. Click it and you can add your own annoying vuvuzela horn track.

If you're unintentionally full-fielding the alternator, you're either:
1. Field wire is shorted to 12v somewhere
2. Wired wrong
3. Bad voltage regulator.

Your light green wire should be switched 12v from ignition hooked up to the voltage reg.

 

well i looked at the video agin oreo but the fuse link runing to the neg on the battery in stead of the starter selloind know it sits at 14 gos up when i hit the gass but the vr will catsh it and send it back down to 14 volts

 

Whoa.... your charge wire fuse link is hooked to bat neg? The alt output is hooked the battery negative? Did i read that right?

 

I'm thinking that's why his alt. batt terminal was burned up LOL

 

And why the VR won't work!

 

HEY JOE! Get on facebook so we can chat...

 

yeah.. that poor alt had to be pretty darn hot lol

I had an intermittent failure on a friends berretta alternator a few years back. It was a rebuilt unit from Advance auto parts. Being intermittent they wouldn't take my word for it because they couldn't reproduce it on their test machine. They thought I was nuts when I walked out the door with a "tested good" alternator and a new alternator. Surprise surprise the issue went away with the new one. And to get my money back on the return I had to ensure test machine failure - so I soldered the battery output terminal to the case under the plastic stud insulator. They were positive it was good so they kept trying to get it to pass. I thought they were going to burn out their tester lol

It would only fail when it was cold out (like 15* and colder) and once it ran for a few minutes to get above it's failure temperature it'd be fine. But when it was that cold out the alternator would dead short to ground for about 10 seconds. The car barely ran as it pulled the battery down to about 9 volts and quickly heated up the alt charge wire. Pretty good indication of what's going on there lol

But of course I'm just a stupid idiot wrenching on a car while the pimple faced kid behind the counter is the all-knowing automotive god.

 

I used to hate that about the local Autozone... now i go to O'Reilly's and they are much, much better!

 

YouTube - vr in action

 

the wirw on the vr where crosse the starter in the a slot and vise versa