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Bleeno: Oh, I thought I had an AC generator with a diodpacket to make it a DC outlet. Are any capacitors? If not there would be small waves on the DC as the diodes leads after each other to make the DC. Even with capacitors it

Bleeno, you really make me laugh but what

caiss4, you

My dear Ford Service Station don

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Battery disconnected and charged, now 12,72V Fuse box replaced and all connections properly cleaned and reconnected. Battery connected, Ignition key turned to first position - battery lamp on and then turned off. Ignition on - engine started, voltage over battery 13,84V regardless to load. Cable to alternator gets warm after a couple of minutes, so warm that I can

and the photo...

A photo of the fuse box for the interested...

Perfect explanation, thanks.

I took my multimeter and measured the impedance between the junction melted away and the chassis and it was an open circuit. Meaning that there is no short between the connection to the alternator and the chassis. I suspect a faulty alternator - open circuit in this must mean a destroyed winding, am I right?

I was thinking of replacing the fuse box without connecting the alternator. If the alternator if faulty it shouldn

I do have a Silver Calcium battery, yes Andrew I lean towards your explanation. I also noticed, when the engine went dead, that all electronics flickered and fainted. After the fuse box melted, the battery must have been drained rather quickly. The positive terminal at the battery was suspicious, I don

To Momof4 Ah, time difference, cunning, I thought is was my english :-) Curiosity is a good thing exploring technical questions... I hope I can contribute helping some of you friendly people in this forum from the UK in the future, at the moment I

yes, any problems? /Ola

To Mumof4: To be honest, I

Encourage with your answers, I

Yes you

Hi all, My car stopped suddenly and couldn

My wipers doesn

HI Richard, Now I have brand new front break pads. Thank you for the work through instructions and pictures! Many thanks,

Hi Saw the topic and wanted to ask you guys how you change the front pads on a -01 Galaxy? Can you please just give me some work through instructions? thanks,