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What do you mean when you say "puts out .34 volts at idle?" Voltage isn't really an indication of whether or not your system is charging. Unless you check the battery and notice the battery is varying in its voltage output. Volts are just the amount of energy per mole of electrons. Amperage is what you should be looking at to tell if it's charging or not. Depending on the diameter of the generator it should put out different amounts, but I think both are over 30amps @ x RPMs.
Here is a stupid question, but it happened to me once, is the battery in backwards? It sounds like your battery is discharging at some point and you need to find where that is.

Andrew
Old 12-28-2001, 06:20 PM
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