Was out and about doing a few things yesterday afternoon. Went here and there and another place. Went to leave, hit the starter button and starter only gave one little grunt and then nothing. Waited a minute, and same thing.
Obviously battery not charged.
Didnt leave the driving lights on again, did I? Nope.
I didnt notice it start slow on other occassions recently. hum...
(But good thing this did not happen 350 miles from home.)
Pull headlight fuse. Didnt make any difference.
I ponder my three options:
- call wife to hook up trialer and come get me. Doah, dont have my phone with me.
- Recruit some passerbys to help push start. All folks around look like tourist in sandals and/or expensive golf-resorter clothes.
- Try bump starting it myself. THere is a small incline on a driveway over there, but is heading out into traffic.
SO I was able to bump start it on that small incline. Abondond my other plans and head straight home. By the time I got home it was starting to not run so well.
Measured battery voltage at just over 10 volts. Was going to check the fluid level, but, oh, yah, its a AGM that cant see thru case and is a sealed unit (and no caps under the label, I checked). Put on the battery tender and it took hours before was charged.
Go it started, and yep, no charging.
Will look into it more this afternoon, maybe, have other things going on today.
First will check:
- visuall check over the wiring in general
- stator ohms
- stator no load voltage
- ohm check - diode check the R/R
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