I have a 2001 blaster and the lights worked great up until about a month ago, the low beam blew first, then the high beam, and also the low oil light bulb ( i still use the oil injection) but strangly enough the taillight is yet to blow. When i hook up the DMM to the lights it registers nothing on DC but on AC registers 8-21 volts, depending on how fast the engines revving. The tail light registers the same, yet doesn't blow. I've gone threw 3 headlight bulbs and I'm stumped, Through lots of ohm meter testing I haven't found anywhere that I don't have connectivity and think maybe it's the voltage regulator?? any ideas? and why would i not be registering voltage on DC but do register on AC? I know the DMM is set up right because I can hook it to a car battery (on DC volts) and read ~12.5 volts with the same settings used to read the headlight (on DC volts) of the blaster. Any thoughts?
possible bad regulator?
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Am I just lucky that the rear light bulb is holding up to the high voltages? Seems weird that all the other bulbs blew except that one, even tho it's suffering the same abuse.
Could anyone tell me if I'm reading these voltages correctly? I just clipped on to one of the two wires going to the headlight (high or low whichever the switch was set on) and read the voltage in AC, DC read nothing but I saw on here somewhere that it's supposed to be DC? Can anyone clear this up for me? Thanks
That's what I've concluded, new regulator is on it's way....I'll keep ya's posted on what I find out. Thanks for the help.
Definately was a bad regulator, voltage stays between 8-12.5 perfectly with new regulator from rmstator.
