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An off-the-wall thought, don't have ANY idea if it correlates to your car. As I recall, on our P-cars, the alternator (warning) light bulb is part of the circuit to excite the alternator field circuit (please be gentle on me if I've got this wrong, I'm just a dumb Mech-E, not a Double-E), and if the bulb is blown out or missing, it won't charge - the alternator never starts putting out. Have you perhaps removed enough of the stock dash to lose this?
Of course, I've seen the other end of the spectrum in the day job... a new engine cal from a certain manufacturer, when downloaded into our prototypes... well, let's just say the dumbasses in Powertrain forgot to include the code/switch to send out the message that would tell the alternator to charge the battery. So suddenly all of our cars started eating batteries, for no good reason. I still don't remember how they figured that one out!!
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Vaughn: Thanks for the reply. None of the service manuals that I have refer to a warning light in the circuit. I'll double check just to be sure.