Reply to "Amp Gauge waving like a beauty queen in a parade"

rockyMember

I must second the observation that loose connections in the "system" have the ability to cause the Ammeter to "wave".

When I bought my car, the ammeter was exhibiting this behavior. The PO stated that it was something new, that he hadn't seen before.

I observed that when I tightened my loose positive battery terminal, the behavior stopped.

Wolfgang noticed it quit temporarily when tightening up a different connection.

I am interested in the fact that it can be observed on the gas guage as well.... All fascinating pieces in this puzzle...

My OPINION is that the cars did not do this from the factory, but the wiggling most likely will correllate to the frequency of the mechanical voltage regulator. Has anyone swapped out the mechanical voltage regulatior with a solid state one and observed the results?

Does anyone know if the solid state regulator is a "bang-bang" (on-off) kind of thing, or a more smoothed application of charging voltage?

Thanks -

Rocky

4/6/159:33 PM

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