[s-cars] Battery Charge Light?

[Cody Payne]

Gents,
	Checked the voltage this weekend.  Idle with no load I am
between 13-14 volts.  Full load (A/C, radio, seat heaters etc) seems to
be a consistent 13 volts.  Revving the car up to 3K RPM's didn't seem to
effect the voltage.  Car off 12 volts steady.

I haven't seen the light come back on in a few days but just thought I
would log this data point to the list

Thx

cp  

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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:13 PM
To: Kent McLean
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Subject: RE: [s-cars] Battery Charge Light?


I will measure the voltage tonight.

Here is what I found regarding your Quattro Archives Post:
http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/electrical.html
And
http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/quattro/20020328/051000.html

Not sure if it is relevant to our cars or not?

I haven't had any dead batteries but need to check voltage in a few
locations with and without engine running and with different loads on
the car.

Thx

Cody

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:55 PM
To: Cody Payne
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Battery Charge Light?


Cody Payne wrote:
> Over the past 6 weeks I have seen my battery light come on my 92'
> generally at idle.  It goes away shortly after getting the RPM above
2K
> and only happens about once every 2 weeks or so. 

Have you put a voltage meter to the alternator output when
it happens?  That would confirm the alternator's health.

I don't know if the C4 S cars have it, but the Type 44 200s
have a splice in the cable between the battery and ...
alternator? jumper post? The splice is under the passenger
footwell/kick panel. Anyway, the splice corrodes, causing a
drop in voltage.  There is a write-up in the quattro archives
on how to correct it.


--
Kent McLean
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
'56 Austin-Healey 100 BN2, for sale
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