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Racur96 · 08-10-2013, 01:43 AM

I've been driving my 29 pickup daily now for the past week. I've adjusted the generator & it's putting out about 8-9 amps charge while going down the road at 45 or so. It has maybe a 1 amp charge at idle but when I turn my headlights on it drops down to a 10-11 amp discharge on low beams and almost bottoms out with high beams on. I've installed a new battery about 2 months ago, running a stock 6v positive ground system, stock generator with GE 6006 sealed beam headlights. Any idea why it's dropping so much? I'm afraid to up the charging rate anymore as it may blow the headlights.

08-10-2013, 01:43 AM	#1
Racur96 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: lawrenceburg, tn Posts: 128	Discharge with sealed beams I've been driving my 29 pickup daily now for the past week. I've adjusted the generator & it's putting out about 8-9 amps charge while going down the road at 45 or so. It has maybe a 1 amp charge at idle but when I turn my headlights on it drops down to a 10-11 amp discharge on low beams and almost bottoms out with high beams on. I've installed a new battery about 2 months ago, running a stock 6v positive ground system, stock generator with GE 6006 sealed beam headlights. Any idea why it's dropping so much? I'm afraid to up the charging rate anymore as it may blow the headlights.