Well the bad news first.

Bad News:

After all that winding and wiring, after the babying and talking sweet...that fucking new alternator wouldn't fit on the Dodge. It sit crooked and the shittin belt kept coming off. I blew a mental gasket and screamed at the Dodge for 2 minutes, kicked all the tires, and threatened the give it to the junk yard just to see it be crushed.... I'm still hot over it. That mother fucker... so I rushed all last night and today to get the alternator that come off the Dodge rewound.

The washers I ordered, to be made into spacers, weren't the right size. So instead of ordering more from that place I'm going to get some from another place down the road tomorrow.

The new electronics I got were put together Saturday night and look great, but I need to hack it so I can change the frequency easily.

The worse news of all is I'm not finished  with them yet. I could kick my ass... slow fucker.

Good News:

I got the rewired alternator out of the Dodge and rewound it. I screwed it up a few times. I had to solder some wires back together I broke numerous times.  All the alternators I have worked with have 12 coils so naturally I wound up 12 coils for the Dodge alternator. As I was almost through with the first phase I noticed I was going to be 4 coils short. So the Dodge alternator has 16 coils wound 60 times with 26AWG wire for each phase, 3 phases total.



After I got the SOB wound up I had to run my wires out of it. The wires were so big and hard to control I was worried they would break off and force me to reopen the alternator right after I got it back in the Dodge. It looked really whimpy too. So I took a hint from Stan. Stan used that circuit board inside his rewired alternator remember? It is below.

 

Well I done the same thing but without the pretty curves and foil.

 


Stan used 3 diodes, but had room for 6. The 3 diode system was Stan's, but the 6 diode system was patented by his brother. I only put 3 diodes on my board, but left enough room to up upgrade. The new alternator has 3 positive posts and 1 neutral post on the back of the circuit board.

 

 


I have the stator wires hanging out the back untill I find out which ones are AC and which ones are neutrals tomorrow.

That engineer should be back from vacation. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot him a schematic of the new electronics and ask him to place the pot and the tell me what capacitor to swap out and where to put the LED.