# Service bulletin BS3886E

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10110004
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-03
- Manufacturer's number: BS3886E
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-02\-13
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR

## NHTSA's summary

When the accelerator is suddenly depressed, the alternator voltage momentarily surge well above 32V because the voltage regulator response time is too long.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10110004-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10110004-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Electrical system, Alternator

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2014 NOVA BUS LFS
- 2015 NOVA BUS LFS

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [BS3344E](/bulletins/10109955.md), 2017-08-03, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY. Niehoff alternator bolts and rubber air intake elbow. The use of longer bolts is required.
- [BS3270E](/bulletins/10083953.md), 2016-11-04, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR. UNABLE TO PERFORM STATIONARY REGENERATION.

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