And you thought your alternator was crazy

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by Oppie, Oct 22, 2004.

  1. Oppie

    Oppie Guest

    Reading my email at the office this AM, found a new offering from
    International Rectifier. They have a new regulator mechanism that gets built
    into the alternator. Similar to the ones used for years except now there is
    a serial communication link between the alternator and bcm/ecu modules.
    http://www.irf.com/whats-new/nr041020.html

    So, in the years to come, diagnosing a bad alternator gets either more
    complicated or easier depending on what tools will be available. My big beef
    with the diagnostic tools that are available to us vehicle owners is that
    they only will read codes (and signals on the more elaborate readers). There
    is nothing that will allow you to perform actuator tests (read only and no
    write control).

    Oppie
     
    Oppie, Oct 22, 2004
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