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Alternator Wiring for Leece Neville 230a?
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[QUOTE="Dave_Nevada, post: 1498162, member: 29749"] Keep an eye on your drive belt. An alternator that size will have some pretty decent drag on the drive belt when it kicks in. Leece-Neville builds most of the alternators for the military. I own a Deuce and a half and it sports a Leece-Neville. But it's not anywhere near the output of yours. Mine is built to swim for fording purposes, I don't think your's is. Anyway, look at your total system current draw and factor constant loads such as your electronics (ECU, ICM, etc). Plan for a current surge in operation when you turn driving lights on, audio amps, etc. Batteries are what run the vehicle, NOT the alternator. Always use high count wire strand battery cables, don't go cheap here. The more strands the higher current handling capability. For instance, a cable that is 1.5" in diameter but has say 10 strands will handle less current than the same diameter cable with 50 strands. Go look at Home Depot power cabling for houses and compare the two. You'll see what I mean. I always run small strand stuff for my shop machinery, it simply handles more of a load than larger solid core power wire. Keep an eye on your batteries. That alternator could overheat the batteries, thus killing them. Pay particular attention to the sides of the batteries. If they start bowing/billowing out, that means they're being overheated from overcharge and are due to fail. You need bigger batteries! With an alternator like yours, I'd wire the output feed to the batteries in parallel, off of a junction block. It can handle the additional load demand and Leece-Neville builds them for that type of circuit arrangement. Have fun with that beast! [/QUOTE]
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