"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in
news:2vGdnWMo2PsMtXDeRVn-vA@sedona.net:

> "Elle" <honda.lioness@nospam.earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:l14Hf.9145$Nv2.3984@newsread1.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
>> FYI, on the battery light:
>> "The battery light is misnamed: It doesn't go on when the battery is
>> low. The battery light will go on only if the alternator is not
>> charging the battery."
>>
>> More at
>> http://www.ehow.com/how_7690_respond-cars-battery.html
>>
> To complicate things, in charging systems that were popular around the
> '80s brush failure would not turn on the charging/battery light
> because the current to turn the lamp on had to go through the brushes
> via the regulator.



<blinks>

Really? How dumb.



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