NJPShorelife
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Just dropped in a new 60 amp alternator. Fired up and after a couple min I noticed a bit of smoke coming from the guts of it. **** down, let cool, fires back up and it did it a bit less after a 2 min idle. Then Shut down. Little smoke for a few sec. then stopped. Now as we know these new 60 amps come painted black to high heaven. Is this expected and just paint burning off something in the guts of it?
Side note:
This is the second 60 amp I installed. The first new one had about 4 hours of run time over several months, noticed in one of the window/ports on the alternator sparks /arch from area on the edge of the wire bundle in the window. Upon inspection, the internal wire bundle that we can on the edge of the windows looked cooked, ( paint was cooked off at least ) they were slightly mobile and not packed tight like a new one. I meter them upon install and all put out 28.5 V so they initially function as expected. Are these things sometimes hit or miss in the quality of their build?
Side note:
This is the second 60 amp I installed. The first new one had about 4 hours of run time over several months, noticed in one of the window/ports on the alternator sparks /arch from area on the edge of the wire bundle in the window. Upon inspection, the internal wire bundle that we can on the edge of the windows looked cooked, ( paint was cooked off at least ) they were slightly mobile and not packed tight like a new one. I meter them upon install and all put out 28.5 V so they initially function as expected. Are these things sometimes hit or miss in the quality of their build?