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Subject:Re: Strange Blinking Light on my battery light indicator - seems erratic
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:31:12 -0400

At 02:36 PM 4/26/2011, Robert Stewart wrote:
>I am having a Strange Erratic Blinking Light on my battery light
>indicator in the center of the dash. I am not sure why...
>
>It started about 2 weeks ago and last week I had my alternator and
>battery checked just to be sure it was not that, both are just fine.
>
>Sometimes it goes off and is flashing in a highly erratic way, other
>times it goes off when I hit a bump.

When you say "goes off" do you really mean "lights up?"

>I recently changed my "bright" high beam indicator bulb, could I
>have possibly damaged or loosened something I shouldn't have?

If the sympton is as I believe, it indicates a short to ground in the
D+ line going to the alternator, or the alternator ceasing to
charge.  Suggest put a voltmeter on the system while the blinking is
happening, and then same voltmeter on D+ to verify that it's going to ground.

All I have time for just now.

d