Hello. Great discovery for me this website, a very good contribution. I would like to tell you my case but before I think it is necessary to indicate my vehicle:
brand: Chevrolet
Origin: Use
model: Chevette Hatchback 5 doors
Year: 1978
mileage: 75,000 miles.
Status: Excellent, never crashed, excellent conservation status. 10 years saved
alternator: DELCO REMY 12V 63 AMPERES INCORPORATED.
Battery: Exide 12v 60 amperes. Three months of use.
Electrical equipment: All original, no additional accessory except radio with two speakers.
The problem is as follows. A year ago, this jewel took a circulation after having been saved for 10 years, the only detail was that his original factory alternator died. Therefore I attended a spare store where I got a reconditioned alternator whose characteristics indicated above. This vehicle has a voltmeter in the panel, which while circulating with daylight always remains in 14 volts or over this. I indicate daylight so that it is understood that the only electrical system that is running is a pioneer radio with two three -way speakers, in summary a normal and low consumption radio. In spite of working well I have noticed (with the help of another person) that when setting the reverse, although the backward lights light these increase their light intensity according to the accelerator and therefore the engine revolutions rise. The problem is when the vehicle circulates in need of more electricity consumption, that is, night. Let's translate everything that comes next with the vehicle in waiting revolutions, that is always more than 900 or 1,000 rpm. I turn on the main lights or foci (understand the big ones) and the sound of the radio is interrupted to immediately return, the voltmeter low immediately to no more than 9 or 8 volts. The vehicle's revolutions go up while I walk and everything returns to normal, stop at a traffic light or disk stop by waiting rpm and the voltmeter low again even getting off the radio to turn on again when I accelerate the vehicle, moreover it is saying that the large lights of the vehicle reach a very poor intensity. Not to mention lighting the flashing lights to bend, these do not even flash unless the revolutions are higher. With the waiting RPM vehicle or a little higher I linked the emergency lights and all the lights begin to decrease and increase their intensity according to the emergency lights. Finally, the next day I take the battery to connect it to a charger and it takes more than an hour to load it.
While the alternator was reconditioned, it changed coals, voltage regulatory box, tridiodes and rectifying box and follows the same. My query is as follows:
1) .- The most logical, my alternator simply died.
2) .- The electrical system of my vehicle is damaged.
I put the second option why it catches my attention that I turn on the lights, emergency lights or the rear glassonor and what is told, the sound of the radio stops to return two or three seconds later.
I hope you can help me.