Thanks for the comments. JMOR's pic is what I've got now exactly, and for what it's worth, my Service manual does show a diesel engine WITH a generator, and it is a completely different piece of equipment. I do appreciate your(alls) thinking about how to approach this. At most, I might be running the driving lights, and the flashers, and maybe the panel lights all at once, and I would hope that would not be exceeding the 37 Amps too.
I am curious about how one would measure the actual output of the alternator say at idle and at operating RPM's...would that take one of those clamp-around-the-wire voltage meters? Might just be usefulinformation to know.
Will press on from here, Thanks again! Yerz, The Frontranger P.S. Hope you enjoy this pic from my place last summer! You can see the mountains as they actually look from my place in the background.
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