Headlights strobing?
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Headlights strobing?
This morning when I was leaving the house I noticed the lights were blinking very quickly. Is this the infamous ground problem? It seemed to be better driving down the road at 3-4k rpm but it had to look a little weird to other drivers. I was almost expecting people to pull over thinking I was a cop. Could this be something other than bad grounds?
thanks,
Paul
thanks,
Paul
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Do you have an oscilloscope? Could be some bad winding in the alternator. If you have an O-scope, I'd test the positive terminal of the battery and see if there is some ripple.
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I had a bad connection the other day and the stereo was cutting on and off while the car was running. Later when I was putting the top up it was moving real slow (I thought I might have the motor going out). When I tried to start the car it was dead. I cleaned up the terminals and it seemed to be fine but now the lights “flicker”. I hope I didn’t do damage to something when raising the top.
They don’t totally go out, they kind of flicker. It's weird as hell
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It's the alternator regulator that has gone kaput by now. Both small wires have to be attached to the alt for it to work right.
Get you digital meter out and check the output of the alternator. See FSM.
Get you digital meter out and check the output of the alternator. See FSM.
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