200amp alt for $200 ?

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

very true ive heard some shit about Nate at Ea but id still buy his alts

I find his customer service excellent. He was always quick to respond to my emails (same day usually) during all my questions before buying.

I bought a 180A for my Corolla. The pulley was too big and the alt wouldn't give power at idle. He offered to pay shipping both ways and installed a smaller pulley on it. Works at idle now. Took less than a week to ship and get back, too (granted shipping from him and me is only 1 day ground, so it took about 2 days to work on it and ship).

I don't know if the actual output of my alt is 180, but I'm not overly concerned because it can power my system at idle without hitting the battery unless I have a bass song turned up and it never hits the battery when driving.

 

[kentb 10+ year member]

just returned one of those 200 amp alt for my ford explorer,

my stock one seems to be better even at high rpms.

voltage drops are worse than my stock 130 amp alt

 

[Ali1 10+ year member]

I find his customer service excellent. He was always quick to respond to my emails (same day usually) during all my questions before buying.
I bought a 180A for my Corolla. The pulley was too big and the alt wouldn't give power at idle. He offered to pay shipping both ways and installed a smaller pulley on it. Works at idle now. Took less than a week to ship and get back, too (granted shipping from him and me is only 1 day ground, so it took about 2 days to work on it and ship).

I don't know if the actual output of my alt is 180, but I'm not overly concerned because it can power my system at idle without hitting the battery unless I have a bass song turned up and it never hits the battery when driving.

You payed for a 180 amp alternator, but your not concerned what it puts out, as long as it can take care of your dimming/voltage drops, your completely satisfied. But then you would be wasting your money. Based on what you've said, it doesn't seem you needed a 180 amp alternator to begin with. If a 120 amp alternator can handle your system's demands along with your car accessories, why pay for 180 amp alt?

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

i have a db electrial and it was benched at 263 amps for a 250amper and they give u a full 1 year warrenty and will exchange any of there alt no questions asked. ive hurd ppl that have gotton a 200 amp alty was given a 220 amp free cuz of the troubles. they have great business values, i would have it bench tested even if it was iraggi just to make sure there isnt anything wrong b4 installin it. call ask 4 ron he builds the alts and knows his shit the others are kinda dumb.

when they bench test an ALT, can they put a load on it also?

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

when they bench test an ALT, can they put a load on it also?

They should. Otherwise it really isn't a test.

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

You payed for a 180 amp alternator, but your not concerned what it puts out, as long as it can take care of your dimming/voltage drops, your completely satisfied. But then you would be wasting your money. Based on what you've said, it doesn't seem you needed a 180 amp alternator to begin with. If a 120 amp alternator can handle your system's demands along with your car accessories, why pay for 180 amp alt?

Because based off my rough calcs I wanted at least 150A. Ohio and Iraggi wanted $100+ more than EA for a 160A alt. So the logical choice was the rated 180A from EA. Since it was cheaper than my other options, no, I'm not concerned if it actually does 180A and I'm not going to waste my time to get it tested since it is doing what I need it to do.