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Originally Posted by steffen707
I think something may be wrong here.
My car has a power cable from the battery positive to the main fuse box, it also has a power cable that goes straight to the starter.
The alternator wire however, only goes the main fuse box and is not directly connected to the battery. This is at least the factory setup. You might have another setup, but I don't think they ever put a wire directly from the starter to the alternator.
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Hmmm. You might be right on that. I'd read that most cars have the alternator's + wire connected to the starter where it joins the battery + cable - just a low cost way to connect them both to the battery + terminal. I assumed our Civics were that way.
Yes there are 2 heavy wires at the under-hood fuse box. One is visibly traceable to the battery. If the other is white then that could be the one that goes to alt +. I had guessed that 2nd wire at front fuse box goes to the under-dash fuse box. But I was just guessing.
At any rate, the alt has only one oem heavy cable and I disconnected it. I'll be looking at my front fuse box to see the color of that second wire.