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<blockquote data-quote="Stalin-ohaulic" data-source="post: 6284645" data-attributes="member: 585517">Your problem is nothing electrical. Your problem is Mechanical. When you draw too much current through your alternator, and nothing blows up, it creates a lot of mechanical resistance. Let&#039;s break it down. When a current passes through a wire, it creates a magnetic field. Also, when a magnetic field passes through a wire it generates a current. Your alternator has a rotor with magnets rotating inside of your stator. It generates a current. Everything is great to this point.Well when you have high current being drawn from the coils in the stator, their magnetic force becomes stronger. They try to grab the magnet in the rotor and stop rotating. It will create great mechanical stress. This in turn makes the alternator pulley not want to turn. This causes either belt slippage or cause the belt to slow down. When the belt slows down, it puts stress on the engine. Enough stress and it can kill your engine. The only solution in a case like this is to set your idle faster with a reprogrammed ecm or just rev the engine a little, or just turn it down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalin-ohaulic, post: 6284645, member: 585517"] Your problem is nothing electrical. Your problem is Mechanical. When you draw too much current through your alternator, and nothing blows up, it creates a lot of mechanical resistance. Let's break it down. When a current passes through a wire, it creates a magnetic field. Also, when a magnetic field passes through a wire it generates a current. Your alternator has a rotor with magnets rotating inside of your stator. It generates a current. Everything is great to this point. Well when you have high current being drawn from the coils in the stator, their magnetic force becomes stronger. They try to grab the magnet in the rotor and stop rotating. It will create great mechanical stress. This in turn makes the alternator pulley not want to turn. This causes either belt slippage or cause the belt to slow down. When the belt slows down, it puts stress on the engine. Enough stress and it can kill your engine. The only solution in a case like this is to set your idle faster with a reprogrammed ecm or just rev the engine a little, or just turn it down. [/QUOTE]

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