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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:02 PM
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---starting a new thread because it's appropriate.

I changed out my alternator thinking that it was fucked. I was wrong. It's not.

Here's what's going on:

-My battery is fine and healthy- 12v measured at the terminals
-At the alternator I see about the same- 11v or so
-In the hydra readout (should be the same for any ECU) I see about 11
-When I start it up, voltage drops down to around 10.8. If I turn the lights on, it drops immediately to about 10.4.
-changing the "gain" in the voltage regulation map doesn't do ****.

This **** used to work.

Any ideas of what to check now?

I am not sure where the alternator control wires end up. I can only see them ending up in the big fat harness at the transmission tunnel entrance.
Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:03 PM
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:17 PM
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WTF is this stupid plug? The wire is yellow and red. Please tell me that it is the dick sucker that makes my car not go.

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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:19 PM
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There is a single wire that goes to your alternator and one that goes to your oil pressure sensor (at least on the 97s)... it could be either one of those. Or was it to the starter... I can't remember.

What year do you have?
Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:39 PM
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NB alternator has 3 wires, two of them in a plug that goes back to the hydra/something, and one is the battery cable, that plug probably goes to the Oil pressure gauge.

edit I meant alternator

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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 12:27 AM
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**** ME IN BOTH EARS AND CALL ME SANTA I UNFUCKED IT

Thoise two wires do just go to hydra and I didnt change **** regarding hydra except for the map. So I figured **** you map you're fucked.

And it was the map. Jeremy must have sent me a new map for a self-regulating alternator. The input for the alternator map was set to TPS, not voltage.

Suck a ****! It works! ***** on your face! All hail the king baby!
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Nice. Might want to make sure all the inputs are setup then, "input follower" and all that bullshit.
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This thread is entertain.
Old Nov 12, 2010 | 01:51 AM
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Nice. Might want to make sure all the inputs are setup then, "input follower" and all that bullshit.
Hmm, where do you find the inputs? I see the outputs in Settings 1.

BTW who set up your Hydra? Did you ever try the VE autotune? Any success?
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Originally Posted by FRT_Fun
There is a single wire that goes to your alternator and one that goes to your oil pressure sensor (at least on the 97s)... it could be either one of those. Or was it to the starter... I can't remember.

What year do you have?
03. I guess it was for the factory oil pressure gauge. I have an aftermarket one now. That doesn't work.

What's funny is that the factory oil pressure gauge arm still swings to twelve noon whenever I start the car just as it did when it was plugged in ha ha. BTW the NB oil pressure gauge is a dummy gauge out of the box.
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boy are these titles with homo **** in them getting old.

some people are viewing from work you know
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This is a farm forum.
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boy are these titles with homo **** in them getting old.

some people are viewing from work you know
did you just complain about stuff with homo **** in it? what site am I on?
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I wouldn't complain if it didn't interfere with my browsing at work

Kinda awkward when your boss walks up to you and one of the tabs in the browser says "**** IN MY *** FELLATIO HOMOFUCK ---- PROBE"
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your boss needs to loosen up.

I suggest **** IN HIS *** FELLATIO HOMOFUCK ---- PROBE
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Originally Posted by faeflora
Hmm, where do you find the inputs? I see the outputs in Settings 1.

BTW who set up your Hydra? Did you ever try the VE autotune? Any success?
settings then the I/O tab

Mine is set up as aux1 being input follower and Aux2 is input follower feedback

VE autotune? My **** was setup by FM, but I have changed a few things around, nothing special though.
Old Nov 12, 2010 | 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Aricjm15
settings then the I/O tab

Mine is set up as aux1 being input follower and Aux2 is input follower feedback

VE autotune? My **** was setup by FM, but I have changed a few things around, nothing special though.
Ahh you are on 2.5.
Old Nov 12, 2010 | 01:29 PM
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+1 on I don't read threads with offensive titles because I'm at work. I skipped over this thread twice when the name was jacked up, and I'm just now looking at it.
Old Nov 12, 2010 | 01:38 PM
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fine, next tiem i will put the title in Azerbaijani
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Originally Posted by faeflora
Ahh you are on 2.5.
****, I'm still on 2.17



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