Hi, I would like to see if someone experience the same that eventually could toast the alternator.
The story is like this, my Alfa Romeo GT batteries were used down to 5.6V after a rainstorm, due to the alarm kept trigger by the wind and heavy rain, my neighbour help me to jump start her from a tiny jump start battery (newest technology that hold enough current to start the car multiple times, but weight just like a RC vehicle 7.2V battery).
The car did start, then he remove his battery, after removed, the car runs for few seconds and stalled, I stopped there and took the battery out to charge overnight. After the battery is charged, the car starts fine, but the battery icon fault lights up, with descriptions saying low battery charge.
I would like to see if I had toasted the alternator either leave the car running with a weak battery having 5.6V only (assuming the alternater will charge the battery back), or is the current generate from that jump start battery current is too high that the alternator do not like?
Or maybe, there is other things wrong that is not the alternator, such as a fuse blow?
Please comments
I am ready to buy a new alternator, but would like to get more info before I place my orders.
:titanic:
The story is like this, my Alfa Romeo GT batteries were used down to 5.6V after a rainstorm, due to the alarm kept trigger by the wind and heavy rain, my neighbour help me to jump start her from a tiny jump start battery (newest technology that hold enough current to start the car multiple times, but weight just like a RC vehicle 7.2V battery).
The car did start, then he remove his battery, after removed, the car runs for few seconds and stalled, I stopped there and took the battery out to charge overnight. After the battery is charged, the car starts fine, but the battery icon fault lights up, with descriptions saying low battery charge.
I would like to see if I had toasted the alternator either leave the car running with a weak battery having 5.6V only (assuming the alternater will charge the battery back), or is the current generate from that jump start battery current is too high that the alternator do not like?
Or maybe, there is other things wrong that is not the alternator, such as a fuse blow?
Please comments
I am ready to buy a new alternator, but would like to get more info before I place my orders.
:titanic: