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Subject:Re: Battery/Charging system questions.. A lot of info included..
From:neil N
Date:Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:00:15 -0700

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Loren Busch<starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> �RE: High voltage readings
> Don, please don't be insulted by this question but are you sure you are not
> reading the voltage at some point where the two batteries appear to be in
> series? �That's about the only way I can think of that would give such
> readings. �Did you check the alternator output, when running AT the
> alternator? �I suppose that the regulator could be fried and the voltage
> could be that high from the alternator. �And even though you checked the
> meter against another I'd still suspect the meter.
>

That's a really good point. I assumed maybe Don was reading meter
incorrectly. My bad.

Maybe he doesn't need a digital VOM after all.   ;)

Neil.

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