Bolt
Viper Owner
Before you tell me to do a search. I tried and could not find a good explanation of my question. If you know the link I would be happy to read up on it. Thank you in advanced.
I was doing some preventative testing today and noticed that my charging system is not working properly. I'm outputting 12.8 volts when it should be peaking out around 14 volts. My battery is brand new and I had my alternator checked and they said it was in extremely good shape and output the 140 amps as stamped on the casing.
When my battery is slightly down and I put my charger on it the amp meter on my charger goes to 6 amps for 4 hours then it will come down to the 2 amps where it should be. OK, I max out my battery charge with my charger, I then take my car for a 30 minute drive and when I get back I should be able to put my battery charge on it and the amp meter on the charger should not go any higher than 2 amps. Guess what the amp meter goes up to 6 amps. As you know this is an indicator that my battery is not being charged my the alternator. I put my handy battery tester/voltage tester on the battery when the car is running and the indicating needle is at the bottom of the charge line. Again the battery is not charging. Now I have two indications of no or low charge.
As I was lead to believe the regulation of charge comes from the computer.
Does anyone know what my options may be?????
I was doing some preventative testing today and noticed that my charging system is not working properly. I'm outputting 12.8 volts when it should be peaking out around 14 volts. My battery is brand new and I had my alternator checked and they said it was in extremely good shape and output the 140 amps as stamped on the casing.
When my battery is slightly down and I put my charger on it the amp meter on my charger goes to 6 amps for 4 hours then it will come down to the 2 amps where it should be. OK, I max out my battery charge with my charger, I then take my car for a 30 minute drive and when I get back I should be able to put my battery charge on it and the amp meter on the charger should not go any higher than 2 amps. Guess what the amp meter goes up to 6 amps. As you know this is an indicator that my battery is not being charged my the alternator. I put my handy battery tester/voltage tester on the battery when the car is running and the indicating needle is at the bottom of the charge line. Again the battery is not charging. Now I have two indications of no or low charge.
As I was lead to believe the regulation of charge comes from the computer.
Does anyone know what my options may be?????