so i bought a high output alt off a guy on here, oh about 4 months ago i'd say. And its been working fine, with my old and new engine.
But i was driving down the road and started to smell this horrible, kind of like plastic smell, and when i came to a stop i could see smoke coming out of my hood (about 50 yards from my house) so i risked it and drove to my house, my car was soon filled with horrible smoke, got out and popped the hood, and the alt was smoking like crazyy! and you can kind of see the windings inside are all burnt
Its a mechman alt. and im wondering why it may have done it, and do you think it can be fixed?
I waiting for the car to cool down, and started it back up, its still pushing out 14.6V, so its still good in that aspect, im just afraid of it catching on fire! lol
I did leave something on in my car the night before and it killed my back battery (kinetik) 9.3V, but i jumped it and left my car running for a while, drove it 30+ miles and everything was fine, held back to a 12.7V charge. Do you think maybe this had something to do with the alt. I'm not sure how they work really. Thanks!
well tell me what you think, should i send it in to get fixed? like do you think they could do anything? thanks in advance!
(also all of my wiring is 1/0 gauge all relatively new, maybe 6 months, and all solid grounds and powers, 2 batteries)

Take off alt.

Take it in for a test.

What do they do in the test? dont they just test the voltage output? Its still putting out 14.7V like it always has, just smoking
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sounds like bad alt. mechanical failure. sure it wasnt the belt that was smoking?

No the Belt is brand new, and i could see the smoke coming directly out of the alt, and the copper windings are black! hope i can send it in to the company for somethin.
spent like $220 on it, and it worked great....till it died!
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then it had to be bad wiring or something. if you can prove that it was a defect then the company should replace it. but a lot of times they wont replace it if it was installed when it went to sh!t. they just say it was your fault and that you didnt install it right. but everythings worth a try.