{"id":1425,"date":"2013-10-05T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:09:31","slug":"13-99-primary-alternator-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/05\/13-99-primary-alternator-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"13.6.2 Primary Alternator Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 19 of 67 in the series 13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Connecting the primary alternator is pretty straightforward. Basically 3 wires. The “B” lead which supplies the power to the electrical system. The “F” (or field) lead which is what activates the alternator and a ground wire.<\/p>\n

Here you can see the large B lead (with the white cover on it). The F lead is above and routed to the left. And the ground comes around the right side.<\/p>\n

\"2013-10-05<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2013-10-05<\/a><\/p>\n

I wasn’t happy with how the alternator cover looked so I did some more filling and sanding. The purpose of the cover is for cooling. Air from the plenum flows into the alternator and then out the bottom through a port.<\/p>\n

Here’s the alternator with the cover on.<\/p>\n

\"2013-10-05<\/a><\/p>\n

And where the wires exit the cover.<\/p>\n

\"2013-10-05<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 19 of 67 in the series 13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Connecting the primary alternator is pretty straightforward. Basically 3 wires. The “B” lead which supplies the power to the electrical system. The “F” (or field) lead which is what activates the alternator and a ground wire. Here you can see … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[37],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-13-electrical-instrumentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}