What's your volt meter reading when cruising around town? Options

[raynekat]

Just curious what the typical volt meter reading is:

1) when you're sitting at the stoplight

2) cruising down the boulevard at 3-4000 rpm

Trying to see if I'm seeing typical or low readings
Thanks

I just recently noted a low charging issue that I believe came down to an alternator/voltage regulator mismatch.
I was using a Bosch VR with my Motorola alternator.
Now I've switched to a Marchal VR and the charging voltages look better.
About 13.75 volts while cruising.

[raynekat]

My car still has normal light bulbs in all the gauges including the generator light. The generator light appears to act normally. Turn the key, and the generator lamp lights up until you start the car. When I first start it up, I get a small glow until I blip the throttle and get the revs up, and the light disappears. After a few minutes warming up on the hand throttle, upon release of the hand throttle and idling at about 700-800 rpm, you don't see the generator light.

The engine is your standard MFI with the CDI box arrangement.

When I had my issue, I had the headlights on, brakes on and wipers on plus the engine of course.

I'll pick up one of the current clamps that you mentioned here in the next day or so, and report back on what I find. Is it easy to measure DC current? Or are we measuring AC current? Thought most everything on the car was DC.