BIG MISTAKE: CONNECTED JUMPER CABLES WRONG WAY!

Get out your owners manaul and read about the main fuses in the power feed circuits and the fusible link in the wiring from the battery. You blew one of these. What year/model is your car?

Ed

You could have any number of things wrong. Your initial problem of the alternator not charging among them.

I recently (in the past ten days or so) had an alternator failure that caused the guages to go dead, and eventually the vehicle stopped running. I don't recall what the headlights did, and don't really care.

I pulled the alternator to replace it, and found there was an electronic device mounted to it. This is a diode pack that converts AC (alternating current) generated by the alternator -- hense the name -- to DC (direct current) needed by the vehicle. Attached to the diode pack was a set of brushes (the kind that rub on the armature to collected the current that is generated). My brushes had worn to tiny nubs and fell out of the holder, stopping the production of electricity, and causing the rest of the stuff in the car to die.

I went to a couple of autoparts stores online, and found that

My guess is that you have no lasting damage, but I'm an optomist.

TJ,

don't feel to bad about your mistake, I had to jump the master electricians car at a job site about 6 years ago and he did the same thing, blew out all the fuses on his Nissan. whoops.

Dave