All:
Problem solved.

This was likely elementary to all of you and if I had my Bentley, I would
have hopefully solved sooner.

Male spade terminal coming out the back of the alt was the proper place to
connect the blue exciter wire. I cut off the newly attached ring terminal.
Added a new female spade terminal. Plugged everything back up...and VOILA!
No more battery light.

Thinking back to my original breakdown...it was likely the culprit all
along.

But thanks to Advance, I do have a new alternator and new battery for $0!

Battery is showing 14+ volts while running!

Thanks to all for your help. Now back to my "list" of fixing stuff.

Bobby
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:

> That blue wire has to be hooked up to start the mag field in the rotor.
> Once energized, the stator provides the current to the rotor.
> But, the blue needs to provide the initial current to get the ball rolling.
>
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