Hi,

I'm new to this forum and am following it with great interest.

The following link should maybe help explain this anomoly though you will have to scroll through all the posts to get the gist of it.
http://www.enginads.com/sprkarcs.cgi/read/6073&expand/1

The 'missing' capacitance of the RFI filter could be enough to stop exciting the alternator.

Now I'm returning to reading as many posts as I can on this amazing site.

Regards Simon.