DILYSI Dave wrote:16vCorey wrote: They're not that small (but smaller than the big GM alternators), but the Bosch VW alternators have two wires, but if you put a diode between the small wire terminal and the big wire terminal, all you have to hook up is the big fat wire to the battery and it will charge just fine.Tell me more about this...
Here's a pic of one of them with that set up.
The two terminals next to each other in the 11-12 o clock position in the pic to the right are the only two terminals on them. The big one goes straight to the battery, the little one goes to an LED in the dash (idiot light). If you don't want to run the idiot light, just put a diode between the two terminals and all you have to run is the fat wire to the battery. I can't remember which direction the diode has to go, and I'm too sleep deprived to wrap my head around it right now, but I'm sure you can figure it out. I can't find any pics online to illustrate what I'm talking about, but I think it's pretty self explanatory.
