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Fried Alternator ???
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<blockquote data-quote="wew lad" data-source="post: 8571054" data-attributes="member: 665412"><p>[quote name='Roland']No not really, just thinking out loud,,, and practicing my English. </p><p></p><p>I never heard of the heat cycle, good to know i&#39;m going to look into that.</p><p> I never had a alternator short before I do was wonder what exactly fails to cause a alternator to short. All the alt&#39;s i&#39;ve replaced just had low or no output, the short is just new to me and caught me off guard.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>my general assumption is that the bridge rectifier is what shorts due to a fried diode. but for it to fail so catastrophically is just weird. </p><p></p><p>im not entirely sure its your fault that it failed, but if that battery is REALLY bad [USER=661255]@adulbrich[/USER] is right and that is probably why it failed on you.</p><p></p><p>no worries on thinking out loud, i do the same. just wanted to make sure we werent missing anything</p><p></p><p>try warrantying the alternator and go easy on the new one. its possible you got a bad one, but its hard to know for sure..</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="wew lad, post: 8571054, member: 665412"] [quote name='Roland']No not really, just thinking out loud,,, and practicing my English. I never heard of the heat cycle, good to know i'm going to look into that. I never had a alternator short before I do was wonder what exactly fails to cause a alternator to short. All the alt's i've replaced just had low or no output, the short is just new to me and caught me off guard.[/QUOTE] my general assumption is that the bridge rectifier is what shorts due to a fried diode. but for it to fail so catastrophically is just weird. im not entirely sure its your fault that it failed, but if that battery is REALLY bad [USER=661255]@adulbrich[/USER] is right and that is probably why it failed on you. no worries on thinking out loud, i do the same. just wanted to make sure we werent missing anything try warrantying the alternator and go easy on the new one. its possible you got a bad one, but its hard to know for sure.. [/QUOTE]
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