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Old 12-22-2006, 12:25 PM
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cs-144 field wire...

Hey all
I have a 89 firebird with 383, Super Ram, Gen VII ECM, and lots of electrical loads, (4 fans, water pump, fuel pump, stereo amps , etc...).

My engine compartment electriacl wireing was re-done (custom) by me and now I need to know where to hook up the field wire on the alt. My fan setup is not the same as stock, therefore where is a good location to hookup the field wire. Any comments and suggestions will be appreicated.

Thanks in advance.

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Old 12-24-2006, 10:25 AM
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Pardon my ignorance, but what is field wire?
Old 12-24-2006, 10:55 AM
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The Field wire or what some people call the sense wire. is the load that tells the alternator to increase or decerase the voltage.

What I did find is that the fuseable link that supplies the car fuse box, was casueing some problems, as soon as I replaced that fuseable link the voltage seems to be working just fine
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Ok good, thanks for the explaination.
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hey kev check out the other thred. https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/tech...ield-wire.html moight help some good tech there.Bill
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