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Great job on the fix! I can't speak to the other issues, but I know our front blinkers don't act as parking lights... at least as far as I have been able to find.
Great troubleshooting tip right here. It takes the truck completely out of the circuit and removed the draw.
Thanks to you and @74M35A2 for all of the help!
I believe you need to move your probe to the "Amp" (red) probe.
You should have a "high" or standard Amp port and a "low" Amp port. Wrong port and you blow a fuse.
Without seeing the entire face of the meter, I can't tell.
Follow up to the follow up...
I broke the cardinal rule of troubleshooting electronics.
I didn't verify my test gear was accurate.
I was using my meter to test the voltage on my motorcycle battery and it was showing 15.7vdc.
After scratching my head, I swapped it to A/C and put it on my...
Oh, I didn't hook it up backward... I think I may have touched the terminal of the positive side to the case while tightening it down. I think it twisted clockwise and the terminal was touching the case.
And if anything is still wonky at that time I'll let you know, and as far as being honest, that's the only way I can be.
I'm not **positive** (see what I did there?) that I grounded the hot, but thats honestly the only thing I can think that would have caused the issue I had. If it's wonky or...
I'm going good be driving the truck for about an hour and a half tomorrow and I'll run the checks when I get home. That will put a good charge on them, I can check output voltages etc and go from there.
I figured out what happened with the guage. When I connected the alternator I accidentally grounded the hot on the casing.
The PCBs were rebuilt over a month ago.
The batteries were weak from me driving it to get it home when the old alternator crapped out.
The battery solenoid didn't work...
Ok... followup time...
After calling and chatting with @74M35A2 to ensure I wasn't messing up, I disconnected both wires from the alternator and connected a jumper cable from the "hot" of the alternator to the top post of my starter, removing the PCBs and rest of the truck from the equation...
I'll do that in the am. Too dark and cold to fool with it right now.
So if that's the issue, I'll show proper voltage at the batteries and guage, correct?
The only problem there is I took the diodes out when I rebuilt the PCB. I didn't have this issue before replacing the alternator.
Hmm... if I had accidentally hooked up backward, it should be REALLY anxious really quickly, right? As I stated, I had a good ground from the ground lug on the...
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