FASTSPOOLINGST
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- Sep 17, 2003
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Elizabethtown,
Kentucky
I bought a brand new battery for my car about two weeks ago. The battery worked great. This was before i ever drove the car, i only had it at idle trying to get it to idle right. I installed a spal electrical fan too.
I took the car for a drive one day and it died on me at a stop light, I went to start it again and it didn't even click the solenoid. I checked my palm and it said I had only 9.4 V So i just figured since the battery was new, the alternator was bad, so I went and bought a new alternator, installed it, then when i took the core back, just to be sure, i yanked the battery and had it tested. It turned out it was bad. I got a new one again for free, cuz I was "in the zone, the auto zone" Put it back together, seemed to work fine during the day. But then i drove the car to work at night and i was watching my palm, the battery volts went under 10 whenever i put the headlights on and my electric fan was on.
Around 9.88-10.1 fluctuating up and down. So i was driving and decided to turn off the headlights and it shot the volts up to 11.6v.
There has to be something wrong with this, I don't get it, i'm using the same wiring for my fan too, just spliced into it. The headlights seem to be the key thing that is sucking the juice. What can I do, anyone have any ideas?
I took the car for a drive one day and it died on me at a stop light, I went to start it again and it didn't even click the solenoid. I checked my palm and it said I had only 9.4 V So i just figured since the battery was new, the alternator was bad, so I went and bought a new alternator, installed it, then when i took the core back, just to be sure, i yanked the battery and had it tested. It turned out it was bad. I got a new one again for free, cuz I was "in the zone, the auto zone" Put it back together, seemed to work fine during the day. But then i drove the car to work at night and i was watching my palm, the battery volts went under 10 whenever i put the headlights on and my electric fan was on.
Around 9.88-10.1 fluctuating up and down. So i was driving and decided to turn off the headlights and it shot the volts up to 11.6v.
There has to be something wrong with this, I don't get it, i'm using the same wiring for my fan too, just spliced into it. The headlights seem to be the key thing that is sucking the juice. What can I do, anyone have any ideas?
