68 Charger Alternator Concerns

[Tyron68]

I replaced my alternator a few months ago. I’ve noticed that my guage moves around a lot more. Before my gauge just stayed in the middle for the most part, but now even when I use a turn signal the needle moves, in sync with the signal. Is this normal?

 

[Bird 426]

Is on my car.

 

[RemCharger]

Put a voltmeter on the system while it's happening in real time so you know what's going on

 

[68-500]

My amp meter fluctuates with turn signal as well

 

[Tyron68]

Is on my car.

Umm. What?

 

[swissarmy]

Umm. What?

Question: Is this normal?
His response, as I interpret it is "Yes, it's normal on my car." as in: Mine does it too.

 

[Tyron68]

Umm. What?

Jesus. Sorry man. Long day and brain is operating at 40%….

 

[Don Frelier]

Sounds normal to me

 

[PlymCrazy]

That’s a common phenomenon to me.
My charging systems operate as they should on both of my Plymouths.

 

[RJRENTON]

I replaced my alternator a few months ago. I’ve noticed that my guage moves around a lot more. Before my gauge just stayed in the middle for the most part, but now even when I use a turn signal the needle moves, in sync with the signal. Is this normal?

Totally normal action ...... do not worry ......or try and fix a nonexistent problem.......
BOB RENTON

 

[Nacho-RT74]

How wide the needle moves along (mostly toward to discharge) with every blink will tell you how efficient or not is the alternator to hold the load at certain engine/alt speed to handle that extra requested load. Or also how fast Is the regulator to react to that extra requested load.

The ideal charge/load stage is an ammeter giving zero reading as much is posible with not to much (if any) fluctuations. That will tell you the alt is effective and efficient for the car load demands.

Sure as far wiring/paths are also in good conditions. Poor conditions wiring could give you also lot of fluctuations still on a good alt setup.

 

[RemCharger]

How wide the needle moves along (mostly toward to discharge) with every blink will tell you how efficient or not is the alternator to hold the load at certain engine/alt speed to handle that extra requested load. Or also how fast Is the regulator to react to that extra requested load.

The ideal charge/load stage is an ammeter giving zero reading as much is posible with not to much (if any) fluctuations. That will tell you the alt is effective and efficient for the car load demands.

Sure as far wiring/paths are also in good conditions. Poor conditions wiring could give you also lot of fluctuations still on a good alt setup.

Zactly. In a nutshell, the alternator is not keeping up.
A multimeter is an informative tool.

 

[RJRENTON]

Zactly. In a nutshell, the alternator is not keeping up.
A multimeter is an informative tool.

The BEST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS: IGNORE what #11 says about anything. The Mopar charging system was designed to perform exactly as it is presented. It DOES NOT need to show charging 100% of the time as suggested.
BOB RENTON

 

[RemCharger]

The BEST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS: IGNORE what #11 says about anything. The Mopar charging system was designed to perform exactly as it presented. It DOES NOT need to show charging 100% of the time as suggested.
BOB RENTON

this sounds familiar..

However I could not find where anyone suggested it should show charging 100% of the time.
What was actually said is ideally it would be zero reading.

 

[RJRENTON]

this sounds familiar..

However I could not find where anyone suggested it should show charging 100% of the time.
What was actually said is ideally it would be zero reading.

#11 implies this fact.....
BOB RENTON

 

[Nacho-RT74]

Once again a proof this guy doesn’t know to read.

I’m still wondering where I said (or implied) “Charging 100%”

Could somebody quote my reply and bold where I say that? Or ANY POST comming from me along the years saying that? I can post the diagrams I made back in 2007 showing the ideal stage is ZERO by myself. (Then after years of my very well known thread published back in 2007, found the same on Chrysler literature)

Charging 100% (or a constant charging reading never getting down to zero) is indeed A BAD signal… showing loads are on incorrect side of the charging network, battery is fully discharged, or even damaged.

 

[RJRENTON]

Once again a proof this guy doesn’t know to read.

I’m still wondering where I said (or implied) “Charging 100%”

Could somebody quote my reply and bold where I say that? Or ANY POST comming from me along the years saying that? I can post the diagrams I made back in 2007 showing the ideal stage is ZERO by myself. (Then after years of my very well known thread published back in 2007, found the same on Chrysler literature)

Charging 100% (or a constant charging reading never getting down to zero) is indeed A BAD signal… showing loads are on incorrect side of the charging network, battery is fully discharged, or even damaged.

As noted previously, the best thing to do is ignore anything this guy says, as he lacks the fundamental knowledge of how a Mopar charging system was designed and operates....he operates on speculation, guess tamates and copies others works as his own....what a phoney.....
BOB RENTON

 

[Nacho-RT74]

Still… without an argument or proof LOL