John Canfield
Site Team
It has been a while since I looked at my house bank voltage with the engine running, so I thought I would check it yesterday. What I saw I didn't like - 12.8 volts, chassis batteries were 13.something. I know from past experience that house and chassis banks will read exactly the same voltage (or vary by only a tenth of a volt.)
So we apparently have our fourth (or is it the fifth?) solenoid failure. I was hoping our forced air ventilation of the electrical bay would eliminate solenoid failure (due to thermal breakdown), but obviously that isn't the situation
We have extensively discussed the solenoid issue on another forum and here earlier in the year and the conclusion reached was the Trombetta solenoid coil is rated for 12V and eventually self-destructs due to 13.6 (or whatever the engine alternator charge voltage is) being applied to the coil.
It seems that we get about 10,000 miles out of one Trombetta solenoid.
So we apparently have our fourth (or is it the fifth?) solenoid failure. I was hoping our forced air ventilation of the electrical bay would eliminate solenoid failure (due to thermal breakdown), but obviously that isn't the situation
We have extensively discussed the solenoid issue on another forum and here earlier in the year and the conclusion reached was the Trombetta solenoid coil is rated for 12V and eventually self-destructs due to 13.6 (or whatever the engine alternator charge voltage is) being applied to the coil.
It seems that we get about 10,000 miles out of one Trombetta solenoid.