Thanks Jim and Dave! Well I get to put off the alt switchover for a while... turns out, super cleaning the connections incrementally improved low-speed charging, and simply upping the idle to 750 rpm or so pretty much solved it. I really like a low slow idle, but obviously that has Side Effects. 750 doesn't really charge, but it keeps the voltage up near 12 so at least the battery doesn't drop below that. I wish there existed 30 amp 3-wire alts. They'd be smaller and wouldn't burn up our old wiring! _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list