bloody alternator wiring -help

[GT_lenny]

can some please post a really basic wiring diagram for an alternator set up as my loom has been pissed about with so i'm gonna start from scratch

 

Cheers

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

i dont have a diagram but just been fiddling with my loom as i had battery light problems due to old wiring and fitted a diode

 

basically if its 3 wires to the alternater well this is mine anyway

 

one red wire goes to the battery live one goes to starter solinoid the thin blue wire goes to battery light other side of battery light goes to live ignition

 

maybe no help to you at all not sure

 

[Savvi]

Normal Lucas type Alternator :

 

2 big spade terminals large heavy red battery cables go to battery or via starter then back to battery.

 

 

Smaller Spade terminal goes to one side of the ignition light, other side of light goes to and ignition feed.

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Simplez

[GT_lenny]

so one side of the bulb has a switched live from ignition switch and other side of bulb goes to the smaller terminal on the alternator?????

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

so one side of the bulb has a switched live from ignition switch and other side of bulb goes to the smaller terminal on the alternator?????

 

yes thats the one

[GT_lenny]

fook knows what my looms been bastardized to do then

[Savvi]

You normally find the ignition live is looped from one thing to the next which makes it look harder then it is