ok I know I should know this but what wires should I be running through the Voltmeter to have the alternator charge. worked perfectly fine before the gauges, and now no power is getting to alternator. jumpered the alternator and it works fine and even changed the regulator. I know it has something to do with how I hooked up the gauges.
The green\red strip wire to the alt needs key on. Normally this goes through a resistor or something and the battery light in the dash.
Yeah, the dash light is part of the excitation circuit.
Jumped that wire to 12 volt switched power. It worked. Thanks.