battery light comes on and have to throttle to keep car on

Does any one have a clue why my car will be ok for a while then suddenly the battery light comes on and if I am not throtleing, the car stales. I was ok this morning for about 15 min, then I hit the brakes, and the batery light came on and when I stopped, the car stalled. I had to keep the car throttle on to stop from stalling?

Any ideas, the battery is 8 months old and, I replaced the + battery wire, and I sanded the ground connections?

It doesn't sound like an alternator because as long as I give it gas, the car is fine...

Right now I am burning a lot of gas?

Any ideas anyone???

Bad soleniod possible cause???

car is an honda accord 1986

Does any one have a clue why my car will be ok for a while then suddenly the battery light comes on and if I am not throtleing, the car stales. I was ok this morning for about 15 min, then I hit the brakes, and the batery light came on and when I stopped, the car stalled. I had to keep the car throttle on to stop from stalling?

Any ideas, the battery is 8 months old and, I replaced the + battery wire, and I sanded the ground connections?

It doesn't sound like an alternator because as long as I give it gas, the car is fine...

Right now I am burning a lot of gas?

Any ideas anyone???

Bad soleniod possible cause???

alternator is your most likely perp. hook up a multi meter when the car is on and idleing and check your voltage going to the battery. if it is between 13.9 and 14.8 hten it is good alt. but if not between those specs its your alt.

Thanks for the info, I'll test today. I have a meter at home...

When using a meter to check alt, do you (have car idle) and disconnect the + bat cable and then use the meter at the + and - bat cable to take a reading on the meter? Is that the way to check the alt voltage?

do it when the car is idle and connected to the battery

I let the walmart guy connect his device to the batter. We checked the battery with the car off (OK). We checked the voltage with the car on(OK). We checked with the lights, ac on, and rev the engine, and it checked out fine. My car is not giving me any problems since it sat in the garage for a few hours.

Tomorrow it will start acting up most likely? Does an alternator typically do this working, not-working stuff?

I thought that if the alt went bad, it would be bad all the time?

I must have a alt on the rag or something?

Any ideas?

it might be the voltage regulator in the alt going bad it happens to go in and out before it goes all teh way out.sound to me lke the alt is bad.

Ahh, yes, I didn't know that the alt had a voltage regulator inside. This sounds like the issue. Thanks again for your help. Presently, I'm out of town and the car is sitting at the airport a week or so...

If the issue continues, I'll have the alt replaced and let you know if it fixed the issue...

thanks again:)