What's up guys?
Well I upgraded to PA-Performances H.O. Alternator last fall because I put in a pretty big sound system. Upon my return from SZ05 it started acting up. I ended up getting it replaced by PA-Perf under warranty in June. I did the install myself and followed the awesome How-To Ray put together and problems were solved.
Well, the other day my battery light came on and I noticed my Autometer voltage gauge was reading about 11.5. Sometimes it would charge and the VG would hit just above 14 like it's supposed to then drop to around 12.5 (like it should I believe). Then sometimes it wouldn't work at all and the VG would sit around 10.5. This morning it wouldn't charge.....then this afternoon it did...but only above 4000RPM's then it would drop to 10.5....then I left work and it would only jump to 14 when I would hit 5000...then it stopped and I barely made it home. The rpm gauge stopped working like usually, wipers would turn off/on sporadically and the gas light would turn off/on. Upon pulling into the drive way something started beeping....sound came from glove box.....must have been the CPU or something.
I spoke with PA earlier and
Rick@PA said that they would refund me the $$ and take the alternator back. He said that I've got some electrical short or something that could be causing a spike in the voltage thus frying the regulator in the alternator....he said this can be caused by a one time spike or from several spikes over a period of time.
With all this being said.....what do you guys think/recommend, etc. Later.
slingersvt
