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Manufactures will have the same terminal identification with a very different function .
Always Confirm with Manufactures Specifications.
A: Battery Sense
AC: Neutral or Star
AS: Voltage sense, external
B+: Battery
B-: Earth
BSS: ECU communication
BSS1: ECU communication
BSS2: ECU communication
BVS: From Alternator to ECU, Charge data (alt load)
C: Charge control from ECU
COM: Bi directional communication. Alternator to ECU charge data (alt load). ECU to Alternator charge control.
D: Dummy terminal
D-: Negative
D+: warning light
D: Driver. From ECU to Alternator, Charge control. Mazda vehicles. Mitsubishi and Hitachi Alternators
DF: Field
DFM: From Alternator to ECU, Charge data (alt load)
E: Earth
EXC: Triode Warning light
F: Field
F: Field Monitor, From Alternator to ECU, Charge data (alt load) Mitsubishi Alternators
F1: Field
F2: Field
FLD: Field
FR: From Alternator to ECU, Charge data (alt load)
G: From ECU to Alternator, Charge control. Mitsubishi Alternators
I: Ignition
I: Charge Light
IG: Ignition
LI: load indicator or Battery sense
LIN1: Bi directional communication. Alternator to ECU charge data (alt load). ECU to Alternator charge control.
LIN2: Bi directional communication. Alternator to ECU charge data (alt load). ECU to Alternator charge control.
M: Monitor. From Alternator to ECU, Charge data (alt load)
N/S: Neutral or Star
N: Neutral or Star
P: Output from Stator (Tachometer)
P: Phase, Feed back from Alternator Rectifier to ECU (Charge Data) Mazda vehicles. Mitsubishi and Hitachi Alternators
PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
PCM: Power Train Control Module (ECU)
R: Ignition
RC: Regulator Control. From ECU to Alternator, Charge control
RLO: From ECU to Alternator, Charge control
RS: Remote Sense. From Alternator to ECU, Charge data (alt load)
RVC: From ECU to Alternator, Charge control
S: Battery sense
S: Star input (Autolite) Star voltage comes out of an alternator terminal thought the vehicles wiring loom and back into the alternator regulator S terminal (Alt will not charge without this link Ref ANA003)
SIG: From ECU to Alternator, Charge control
WL: warning Light
W: Output from Stator (Tachometer)