D6C not charging

Check continuity between the battery wire terminal on the alternator to the battery post - you may need to disconnect some items to isolate the circuit for testing. You can also temporarily run a wire between the alternator and direct to the battery while the engine is running to see if it picks up the charge. Use a clamp meter to check amps

thanks Neil, I will do that this weekend. i suppose it''s possible that the previous owner did some re-wiring. The ammeter has shown no charge since I got it and i've been charging from an external charger.

Neil (and Greengiant)-

A clamp on ampmeter works on AC not DC.

Daron

Neil (and Greengiant)-

A clamp on ampmeter works on AC not DC.

Daron

Check the specs of your clamp meter to see if it does DC or not. My fluke one does both.

Oh ok, thanks Daron, I didn't know that. Based on that GG, you can hook your direct wire up to the ammeter and use that to bypass the rest of the wiring if it's determined that the continuity is no good

I've had fun with broken wires that didn't look broken. and still delivered the "right" voltage but were not providing it under load. in the end we got a autolec to have a look and his apprentice found it there was a bad spot in the cable that you couldn't see. electrical gremlins are always "fun".

bad earths cause many problems. check they are clean and firmly tightened. a smear of conductive grease helps. hell a light smear of any grease helps prevent corrosion.

this is a tip with multiple batteries you want to link across the batteries so your leads go to opposite ends of the battery bank so it think its one big battery. so for a 24v bank you use the positive on one battery and the negative on the other. also have any linking wires the same length so you get even current flow like water power follows the path of least resistance usually that's the shorter/heavier wire