Testing current draw

[Avi Meron]

Ti,
If is running 17 volts he must need a new Voltage reg.
Take care,
Avi

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Ti Kan
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:40 PM
To: Simon Allcorn
Cc: 'Larry Newman'; 'one at humanspeakers.com'; Audi
Subject: Re: Testing current draw

Simon Allcorn writes:
> ~ 13.5 Volts charging sounds way to low to me - I would expect about 17
> Volts - what RPM was the engine running when you did this ? Should make no
> difference but if it's not working correctly (i.e. only charging a full
> potential of you'r doing above 2k RPM) then this may be worth checking.

Huh?  No Audi that I know of would charge at 17 volts.  The stock
voltage regulator on older Audis limit the voltage to somewhere around
13.6 volts.  The newer models now run a little over 14 volts.

-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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