Inliners International Forums General Discussion Electrical Am I gonna hurt my Optima battery?

thanks Bauer. ill go out and try to get a decent quality cellphone pic. ran it today and no issues, except the belt is slightly misaligned. shes charging near the high end of 14 volts tho.

this leads me to a question about the voltage regulator. my voltage regulator has a little silver condenser looking thing hooked to it, and the FLAPS have no idea what it is because its not an ignition condenser (breaker points) and its not an AC condenser.

what is that little condenser looking thing and where can i get one? do i even need one? and also, i changed alternators, and the voltage regulator is still fairly new, ~4 years old or so, should i change that out too now that i have a new alternator? *EDIT* <--- a radio capacitor is what i seem to be describing. dont mind me, ill go back to google now.

thanks for your time folks. pics to follow soon.