Alternator issues fixed

[grandpa Love]

Considering I posted about my issue the other day, it's only fair and right that I post the fix. Even if it's an embarrassment to me. Checked and rechecked every wire and connection. Re moved the gauge. Tried a new GM one wire alternator. Still sparking so bad it was like welding. Decided to try a different battery..... Started to unhook battery cables and I had hooked them up backwards..... Good grief, rookie, stupid mistake. Starter didn't care , but once I tried adding an alternator it was an issue. Fixed, running, and charging now............ I'm tough, let the roast begin

 

[Rich'sToys]

No roasting necessary. Everybody does stuff like that once in a while. They just don't all admit it.

 

[cjunrau]

Considering I posted about my issue the other day, it's only fair and right that I post the fix. Even if it's an embarrassment to me. Checked and rechecked every wire and connection. Re moved the gauge. Tried a new GM one wire alternator. Still sparking so bad it was like welding. Decided to try a different battery..... Started to unhook battery cables and I had hooked them up backwards..... Good grief, rookie, stupid mistake. Starter didn't care , but once I tried adding an alternator it was an issue. Fixed, running, and charging now............ I'm tough, let the roast begin

Takes a man to admit a mistake. Not just that but admitting it to your children also shows you are human and they learn that lesson and sticks with them for life.

 

[SkipperII]

An old saying. I have learned far more from my failures, than from my successes!!

 

[Janicholson]

Reality is a harsh taskmaster. Other than a few sparks, nothing but a mild bruising of the ego. we all get those know and then. Jim

 

[Brown David]

No roasting necessary. Everybody does stuff like that once in a while. They just don't all admit it.

Well said.

 

[ss55]

Considering I posted about my issue the other day, it's only fair and right that I post the fix. Even if it's an embarrassment to me. Checked and rechecked every wire and connection. Re moved the gauge. Tried a new GM one wire alternator. Still sparking so bad it was like welding. Decided to try a different battery..... Started to unhook battery cables and I had hooked them up backwards..... Good grief, rookie, stupid mistake. Starter didn't care , but once I tried adding an alternator it was an issue. Fixed, running, and charging now............ I'm tough, let the roast begin

BTDT (Been There Done That) myself, it happens. Sometimes you can get replacement diodes for an alternator, otherwise replace exchange the alternator for a good one. A fuse or fuseable link can save an alternator or at least a wiring harness when that happens.

 

[crsutton81]

Considering I posted about my issue the other day, it's only fair and right that I post the fix. Even if it's an embarrassment to me. Checked and rechecked every wire and connection. Re moved the gauge. Tried a new GM one wire alternator. Still sparking so bad it was like welding. Decided to try a different battery..... Started to unhook battery cables and I had hooked them up backwards..... Good grief, rookie, stupid mistake. Starter didn't care , but once I tried adding an alternator it was an issue. Fixed, running, and charging now............ I'm tough, let the roast begin

Anybody that doesn't make a mistake isn't doing anything. It happens. Glad it was a simple fix and you got it going.

 

[wore out]

Considering I posted about my issue the other day, it's only fair and right that I post the fix. Even if it's an embarrassment to me. Checked and rechecked every wire and connection. Re moved the gauge. Tried a new GM one wire alternator. Still sparking so bad it was like welding. Decided to try a different battery..... Started to unhook battery cables and I had hooked them up backwards..... Good grief, rookie, stupid mistake. Starter didn't care , but once I tried adding an alternator it was an issue. Fixed, running, and charging now............ I'm tough, let the roast begin

SUCCESS!

 

[miangus]

Now, if that is the most expensive mistake you have made recently you are doing well. I am surprised it didn't ruin the alternator.

 

[Ozlander]

You got it fixed, that's the main thing.

 

[leroy in ne]

I'm about as bad. No spark and in hurry, it's corroded points, grab point file and use it. No start, no spark at plug wire, so clean again. Repeat everything again then see rotor laying on tractor hood. Now it's getting to late and dark to do project after it starts instantly.

 

[onefarmer]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one that does stuff like that!!

 

[DWF]

Battery was dead in the Ford Escape at the end of the day. I had turned the key on to let a window down and I failed to turn the key off, mistake #1.
It was sittting by the shop, so I got a battery charger and put it on, charger did not want to charge, so I walked to the house and came back an hour later, still no charge. I said to myself, heard sometimes these new chargers don't want to charge a dead battery, so I walked back to the house to get an old 6 amp Montgomery Wards charger that I know would charge a dead battery. Bingo, I had hooked up the charger cables backwards. Big nistake #2. I've been around this stuff for over 60 years and that's one of the dumbest things yet.
DWF

 

[wore out]

Battery was dead in the Ford Escape at the end of the day. I had turned the key on to let a window down and I failed to turn the key off, mistake #1.
It was sittting by the shop, so I got a battery charger and put it on, charger did not want to charge, so I walked to the house and came back an hour later, still no charge. I said to myself, heard sometimes these new chargers don't want to charge a dead battery, so I walked back to the house to get an old 6 amp Montgomery Wards charger that I know would charge a dead battery. Bingo, I had hooked up the charger cables backwards. Big nistake #2. I've been around this stuff for over 60 years and that's one of the dumbest things yet.
DWF

60 years ago we didn't have all the "smart" things we have nowadays!

 

[used red MN]

Battery was dead in the Ford Escape at the end of the day. I had turned the key on to let a window down and I failed to turn the key off, mistake #1.
It was sittting by the shop, so I got a battery charger and put it on, charger did not want to charge, so I walked to the house and came back an hour later, still no charge. I said to myself, heard sometimes these new chargers don't want to charge a dead battery, so I walked back to the house to get an old 6 amp Montgomery Wards charger that I know would charge a dead battery. Bingo, I had hooked up the charger cables backwards. Big nistake #2. I've been around this stuff for over 60 years and that's one of the dumbest things yet.
DWF

DWF, so did you charge the battery back up in reverse making the positive post negative and the negative post positive? Or were you saying the first (smart) charger was just connected wrong. I don’t think the alternator diodes would let it be charged backwards. And usually there is some residual charge left in a battery.

 

[randyrenfro7]

You are on your way to a BS degree from the College of Hard Knocks although this one wasn't too hard. Fill in course.

 

[olddog]

Considering I posted about my issue the other day, it's only fair and right that I post the fix. Even if it's an embarrassment to me. Checked and rechecked every wire and connection. Re moved the gauge. Tried a new GM one wire alternator. Still sparking so bad it was like welding. Decided to try a different battery..... Started to unhook battery cables and I had hooked them up backwards..... Good grief, rookie, stupid mistake. Starter didn't care , but once I tried adding an alternator it was an issue. Fixed, running, and charging now............ I'm tough, let the roast begin

If you don't get euchred every third time, you are not taking enough chances! GETTER DUN!!!

 

[john in la]

My one mistake in life.

I thought I made a mistake once. The real mistake was thinking that because I was wrong.
Lol.

 

[Russ from MN]

I admire you for telling us! An old saying, lessons learned the hard way are remembered the longest! I made a silly mistake at work once, my partner said, Think of yourself as an absent-minded professor! That partner is still a good friend.