Identifying And Repairing Battery Cable Failure In Porsche 997 911 Models
The cable runs from the battery, to a junction box on the side of the gearbox, to the starter, and then to the alternator. In principle, the voltage should be substantially the same at any point on this cable path. That's not what we found. Crank voltage at the starter end of the car dropped all the way to 7.65 volts - a slow crank indeed. Alternator output rose immediately after startup to 14.1 and cut back to 13.7, because the alternator thought the battery was fully charged. We're down to wire, as they say . Resting voltage was the same, at 12 volts. Now we knew that came from a weak (mostly discharged) battery. We moved the scope meter from the alternator to the terminal block on the transmission, where the readings were the same as at the battery. That gave us our answer. There was no significant drop from the battery to the transmission. The voltage drop was worst on starting, which told us the issue would be in the cable from transmission junction to starter, or in the terminations at one end or the other.
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