{"id":1575,"date":"2025-07-25T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:33:07","slug":"alternator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/alternator\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The alternator is mounted on the right side of the engine using a bracket made by ICT.  When I wired the battery, I did some research on the alternator to see what I needed to wire up to get it working.  This alternator had the big heavy cable from the battery, and also two smaller connections provided in a plug at the top.  These are labeled &#8220;F&#8221; and &#8220;L&#8221; on the case.  After doing some research, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dirtydingo.com\/shop\/mobile_pages.php?CDpath=4&amp;pID=108\">Dirty Dingo&#8217;s excellent writeup<\/a> on alternators.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is that the writeup explains everything you would want to know about alternators commonly found on LS engines.  The bad news is that this two-wire interface depends on a computer managing it to set the output voltage.  It defaults to 13.8 volts (limp-home mode) which will sorta work, but that&#8217;s lower than you want.  It&#8217;s not an easy retrofit to a non-computer setup.  I am going to try to get one of the other alternator models that are easier to retrofit.  I&#8217;ll hook this up in the meantime, but eventually it will need to get replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5059.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5059.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5059-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5059-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5326.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5326.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5326-450x600.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alternator is mounted on the right side of the engine using a bracket made by ICT. When I wired the battery, I did some research on the alternator to see what I needed to wire up to get it working. This alternator had the big heavy cable from the battery, and also two smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}