I am an Electrical Idiot, and I need some advice.
My car has several accessaries, and it struggles to keep up volts. I often have to chose between fans and headlights, and I can feel the engine lose spark when the fans come on.
I am running dual electric fans, not aftermarket, but I am not sure what vehicle they came from. They pull TONs of air, and so I assume they draw alot of amps. I also have a small sound system, with 6speakers, and my clock runs all the time. Asside from this, I occationally use my vent fans, and at night I do often have to use my highbeem lights.
My alternator is not original to the engine, and I believe it is off a late 80s, or early 90s Astro van. It tested at 78 amps capacity.
The repair guy says he can beef it up to 94amps in that casing size.
will this be enough?
I will try to get a voltmeter and see how much my entire system is drawing. But I wanted to see what you folks think...
should I have my alternator rebuilt to output 94amps? It will roughly cost me $80. Or are there beefier ones I can pull from a junkyard (there are not alot of junkyards around here) to run on my sbc350?
My car has several accessaries, and it struggles to keep up volts. I often have to chose between fans and headlights, and I can feel the engine lose spark when the fans come on.
I am running dual electric fans, not aftermarket, but I am not sure what vehicle they came from. They pull TONs of air, and so I assume they draw alot of amps. I also have a small sound system, with 6speakers, and my clock runs all the time. Asside from this, I occationally use my vent fans, and at night I do often have to use my highbeem lights.
My alternator is not original to the engine, and I believe it is off a late 80s, or early 90s Astro van. It tested at 78 amps capacity.
The repair guy says he can beef it up to 94amps in that casing size.
will this be enough?
I will try to get a voltmeter and see how much my entire system is drawing. But I wanted to see what you folks think...
should I have my alternator rebuilt to output 94amps? It will roughly cost me $80. Or are there beefier ones I can pull from a junkyard (there are not alot of junkyards around here) to run on my sbc350?