A common problem exists when driving automotive alternators via motors. In the process of attempting to regulate the charging voltage of a low battery, the alternator shaft torque usually exceeds the ...

Your car won't start for the second day in a row. You ask your neighbor for a jump (again) and head off to work — late, of course. You come to the conclusion that it has to be the battery or the ...

For most readers, the electrical system is completely ignored because the factory engineers have already built in a safety buffer to prevent problems with aftermarket accessories such as inverters, ...

General Motors has issued a recall for over 350,000 pickup trucks as they may have left the factory with alternators that were wired incorrectly. The defect: according to the filing from the National ...

For the most part, it’s simple. Your car or truck has a battery, it supplies electricity to the bits that need it, and that’s all you care about. Until something goes wrong or you want to do something ...

It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s raining. Your reach down and flip on the fog lights. They help but not that much. So you power up the light bar. Yup! That’s the ticket. The stereo is cranked up and life is ...