7.3 High Output Charging Solutions--Go!!
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Mountain Pass
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From: Garden City, Mi
7.3 High Output Charging Solutions--Go!!
I bought a DB Electrical Alt a year back and its gone out twice.
I plow and have a lot of lights and electrical draw.
How can I make the good ol Large case Alt to work?
They get hot plowing or at long HW speeds and stop producing.
Im looking for a good solution.----Go!
I plow and have a lot of lights and electrical draw.
How can I make the good ol Large case Alt to work?
They get hot plowing or at long HW speeds and stop producing.
Im looking for a good solution.----Go!
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From: Northern Indiana
I plow also. There was a guy on here a while back that put a 6.0 alternator on his truck. You just had to turn back half of the case. Do you run strobes or LEDs? I have a set of strobes but have LEDs too. I am slowly changing over to LEDs, much brighter and take a fraction of the current draw.
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From: Texas
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No issues on my end, but I don't plow any snow. For that matter, if there's snow on the ground, I just stay home till it melts.
Guess the alternator is about a year old now, so take it for what it's worth.
Guess the alternator is about a year old now, so take it for what it's worth.
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From: Puget Sound
Oh... to have that option. Winter is when I put the bulk of my miles on Stinky because I have to traverse a hazardous road to work in the winter. I'll say this: I've driven a lot of different vehicles a lot of miles through a lot of conditions, and this truck is the most assertive consumer vehicle I've taken into the slop.
As for the need for more juice, I'm assuming it's the hydraulics for the blade that gobbles it all up. Wouldn't a PTO serve you better? I've never plowed and I don't know the limits of the PTO (assuming the low RPMs are a factor), so I ask.
As for the need for more juice, I'm assuming it's the hydraulics for the blade that gobbles it all up. Wouldn't a PTO serve you better? I've never plowed and I don't know the limits of the PTO (assuming the low RPMs are a factor), so I ask.
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Tugly...On my last plow truck....1989, I had a Fisher plow and the hydraulics were driven off an auxiliary v-belt. Bolted a v-belt pulley to the harmonic dampener. It was nice, but responded slower at idle than a elec pump unit.
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OK... to that end, how about dual alternators? If I were to take Stinky plowing, this would be my option.
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From: Rochdale MA
I would talk to a reputable rebuilder in your area, they will be able to build you an alternator that will be able to produce the ampacity that you need.
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From: Hampton, Maryland.
I plow with a Western Unimount, a Meyers 1ton electric poly hopper salt spreader in the bed, with a vibrator kit on it, and have a Strobes'n more 6 light system on my truck, currently only running 4 strobes, and have never had any issues with the alternator not putting out enough amperage to run things just fine. I would start looking into maybe the grounding system and the battery cables being an issue on your truck. A lot of times, the cables get corroded under the insulation. I would bet you have this going on in at least one of the ground cables.
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If something ever goes wrong, it's just a matter of finding them, but having a parts store alternator is advantageous since they're everywhere.
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I have a Mechman 270 amp alternator sitting on the shelf waiting for me to install it on my SD. When I do it I will also do a 1/0 charge cable and they recommend a ground from the alt case to the battery as well. I had this alt on my OBS for about 10k miles and it over heated for some reason. Mechman rebuilt it under warranty, no problem so I will give it another shot on my SD.
I will say that it definitely has no shortage of power for what I was using it for, but I don't plow or anything either. I got it b/c my Flex-a-lite fans pull about 35 amps and my stereo system pulled quite a bit of power too, so I could never hold voltage with everything turned on even with a new stock alternator.
I will say that it definitely has no shortage of power for what I was using it for, but I don't plow or anything either. I got it b/c my Flex-a-lite fans pull about 35 amps and my stereo system pulled quite a bit of power too, so I could never hold voltage with everything turned on even with a new stock alternator.
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I don't plow snow anymore, but I do have a demanding stereo system. This is the alternator I went with. Its been holding up well!
DC Power 185A
DC Power 185A
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Nations Auto Electric has some good units.
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High Amp Ford 3G, 4G & 6G Alternators, 200-300 amp Ford Alternators, Nations Starter & Alternator