How do you check alternator voltage with a multimeter?

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Proceedings Article•DOI Interpolated FFT for real-time detection of belt slip in automotive electric power generation and storage system Siwei Cheng, Thomas G. Habetler, Yilu Zhang, Stephen Nawrocki, Mutasim Salman - Show less +4 more 20 Jun 2011 7 Citations	The experimental results show that the method is able to estimate the alternator speed accurately even during fast mechanical transients.
Open access•Journal Article•DOI Experimental study on the effect of alternator speed to the car charging system Rozdman K. Mazlan, Reduan Mat Dan, Mohd Z. Zakaria, Abdul H. A. Hamid - Show less +3 more 01 Jan 2017 17 Citations	The result shows that the faster the alternator spin, the more power it can produce.
Open access•Journal Article•DOI Increasing accuracy and repeatability of fuel consumption measurement in chassis dynamometer testing Chris Brace, Richard Burke, J Moffa - Show less +2 more 01 Sep 2009 41 Citations	These highlighted the need for rigorous battery charge management as the battery voltage was found not to be an appropriate measure of the variation in the alternator loading.
Journal Article•DOI Novel approach to alternator field winding interturn fault detection D.W. Auckland, I.E.D. Pickup, Roger Shuttleworth, Y.-T. Wu, C. Zhou - Show less +4 more 01 Mar 1995 19 Citations	The paper demonstrates how artificial neural networks can be used for the online detection of interturn faults on the rotor of an alternator.
Journal Article•DOI Vibro-Acoustic Simulation and Optimization of a Claw-Pole Alternator Antoine Tan-Kim, Vincent Lanfranchi, Stephane Vivier, Jérome Legranger, Frédéric Palleschi - Show less +4 more 16 Jun 2016-IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 24 Citations	Therefore, a mechanical model of the alternator has to be developed to determine its main modes.
Open access•Journal Article•DOI Wavelet transform and least square support vector machine for mechanical fault detection of an alternator using vibration signal Mohammad Reza Asadi Asad Abad, Ashkan Moosavian, Meghdad Khazaee - Show less +2 more 01 Mar 2016-Journal of Low Frequency Noise Vibration and Active Control 13 Citations	Hence, the proposed procedure is capable of detecting the alternator faults, and thus can be used for practical applications.
Open access•Proceedings Article•DOI Thermal modeling of Lundell alternators Sai Chun Tang, Thomas A. Keim, David J. Perreault - Show less +2 more 06 Jun 2004 7 Citations	The predicted alternator temperatures are found to be consistent with experimental measurement.
Open access•Journal Article•DOI Thermal modeling of Lundell alternators Sai Chun Tang, Thomas A. Keim, David J. Perreault - Show less +2 more 22 Feb 2005-IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion 45 Citations	The predicted alternator temperatures are found to be consistent with the experimental measurement.
Journal Article•DOI Nonsymmetrical, Nonlinear Aerospace Alternators on Nonlinear Loads A. L. Jokl, L. I. Amstutz, E. A. Erdelyi - Show less +2 more 01 May 1975-IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 4 Citations	The theoretical results have been found to be in good agreement with available test data on the alternator.