Increase voltage from alt by 0.6?

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Increase voltage from alt by 0.6?

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Re: Increase voltage from alt by 0.6?

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It will work on the newer alternators that don't have internal regulators. They get voltage reference from the PCM.
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Re: Increase voltage from alt by 0.6?

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That must be how the new new new GMs will turn off/on/off/on/etc the alternator to increase MPG.
Some people have noticed that the dash voltage indicator will move more than expected.
Even to the point that they think there is a problem.

Those snot-nosed kids at GM they call "engineers" strike again.
I was told getting my beauty sleep was a waste of time.

1990 Astro (Z motor) mostly original @ 343,584 miles (552,944.8488960001 Canadian) (03/2008). Bad startup puff. Starting to spray for skeeters. Gone 06/07/08.
1993 Astro with a bad W motor. Parked next to a chicken coop in Talking Rock GA
I'm 'tween Canton and Holly Springs (North NorthWest of Atlanta GA)
I haul bottled water everyday- between 500 and 2500 pounds (226.796185 and 1,133.980925 Canadian) INSIDE the van.
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