[T3] Draw on battery.

[Mike Fisher]

If it had 14.3V then the voltage regulator was/is working.  Short/bad
ground or worn brushes.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:07 AM, dlstiefel <dlstiefel at dekalbk12.org> wrote:

> In advance I want to apologize for the long post but I need some extra
> heads to bounce this off of. I usually don't drive Clementine much this
> time of the year (late May-mid September) but my son's Golf is sick and
> needed a car to drive to work. His commute is about 25-30 miles one way. He
> got to work about 6 in the morning then went out on his break between 9-10
> in the morning and the battery was dead. I went down there jumped it off
> and left him my Ram truck to get him back home. When I got home I didn't
> shut it off and hooked up the DVOM to the battery and got about 14.3 volts.
> Then I shut the engine off the volts dropped down to about 13.5. I then
> took the ground off cable the battery put one lead on the ground cable and
> the other on the negative post on the battery. The DVOM red 12.5 volts. I
> started pulling the fuses one by one look at the reading then put the fuse
> back in. No change on any fuse. I then unhooked the wire from the positive
> side of the battery to the voltage regulator and it dropped close to 0. So
> I thought OK it's the regulator. By the way I just put this regulator on
> the car back during the big restoration. It's one of those newer compact
> solid state ones that Bosch makes now. The only thing that confuses me now
> is I went back the next day and done the same test to the wire between the
> battery and voltage regulator again but this time it read almost 7 volts.
> As long as I leave the battery cable off when it's not running everything
> is fine. So am I missing something? Or dose it sound like I got a dud
> voltage regulator?
>
> Dennis Stiefel
> 72 Fastback FI MT
> Rainsville, AL
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