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How to test your vehicles alternator using a multimeter.

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Uploaded by on Feb 3, 2010

Quick and easy way to see if you vehicles alternator is working as it should. Thanks for watching!

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  • Replaced the battery and Alternator( with voltage reg) and my battery is loosing charge somehow. Watched your video and purchased a multimeter and the readings are as follows:1. car off battery reading is 12.2. 2. After it is started the number slowly(10sec) climbs to 13.8-14 area. 3.Then with the car running and the heater blower on high and the headlights on the reading goes down to the 10.5 area but does increase when the motor is rev'ed up to 1500 rpms. My belts are tight. I am stumped

  • @MrNedgoak Sounds like either the alternator is not powerful enough or the new one is bad.. Not likely but possible.

  • SIMPLE THANKS ONLY ISSUE I HAVE IS DO I NEED TO SWITCH METER TO THAT 20...NUMBER? IS THAT DC..OR AC?

  • @50MOLE 20, DC

  • Cool, thanks! Didn't know you could do that

  • @Marcaveli7 Thanks for watching!

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  • eBay has multi-meters for $3.60 delivered folks. Yes, they work.

  • @da1stegr Yeah, odd. Good ole' Autozone!

  • @Johnnysshop well when I took it to Auto crap (auto zone) to have it charged they said it take 37 min well it got late so I went the very next day to pick it up and it was still in the charger. And i was like wtf you know. then they said it needs to be charged. I said it tought you guys already did that that. so he tries 2 charge it AGAIN and this time i wasn't leaving it. he came back not even 1 min later and said it was dead. I was like WoW . Wtf yesterday it was ok and now it's dead? hmmm??

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