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Marc Swanson mswanson at sonitrol.net
Thu Nov 20 12:05:17 EST 2003


> >Interesting thought.  One known electrical issue that I've got is my
> >alternator seems to have an unsteady output past about 4k RPMs.  It
> >seems to swing between ~13-15 volts in an AC like fashion.. wonder if
> >the capacitor on the back is flaky?
> >
> Hey, yours too!?

interesting...


> Remember the last ride you got in the 90tq, and the
> same voltage fluctuations in it above 4k?

oh yeah, surprised I didn't connect the dots...

> Lemme know if you find the
> problem. My voltage regulator is virtually brand new, and it seems to be
> charging just fine, but any running at high RPMs at night and you can
> see a slight flutter in the pisspoor headlight output.

my LCD screens flash :-)  Lights stay fine since the fat wires powering
them are damped nicely by that big capacitor in the trunk ;-)


> Too bad the 034EFI couldn't log ALL of it's inputs...
> <wink><wink>*cough*Javad*cough*, as well as say... injector PW... :)

injector PW would be awesome to have in the logs.

BTW, I couldn't figure out how to open up a log.csv file to display the
graph without the computer connected to the car.. your php app works
nicely but it would be nice to be able to look at it offline as well..


Later

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