Battery Light on and flickers

Electrical problem
2003 Ford Escape 6 cyl Four Wheel Drive Automatic 73000 miles

My battery light stays on most of the time especialy when I first start the car and drive 10 or 15 miles.

Fuses I still can't get fuses I still can't get the battery light to come on it only comes on when I touch the green and red stripe wire to the base of the alternator problem and help me get my alternator to charge or is the alternat and help me get my alternator to charge or is the alternator shot thank you

Having similar issues in my wifes 06 escape 2.3 duratec to those in this focus thread: http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=261352
Battery warning light keeps coming on mostly at idle. Battery and alternator have both been replaced.

I don't appear to have a main fuse but a metal "shunt" which goes across the 2 big wires that go to the under hood fuse box. We took it out and cleaned it up as well as tried replacing fuses for things like the alt or pcm. Also swapped around relays to rule those out.

Found the ground from battery to chassis looked a bit corroded to took it of and cleaned up all ends and sanded the connection points. Still no luck. Batt light keeps coming on.

The strange thing is that if I read the voltage with a multimeter from the battery positive and ground to the engine block it shows 14+ volts while running. If I ground the multimeter to the negative batt post or its grounding cable it shows a volt or so lower. Using the odometer voltage display it seems to get the same voltage that is shown by connecting to the battery ground rather than the block. Alternator which was just replaced thinking it was the problem is indeed putting out good voltage. The battery ground looks good and has been cleaned up. What could be causing this difference in voltage output readings?
The batt negative does have 2 leads coming off it. One is to the body that I cleaned up one disappears underneath and looks like it may connect to the engine. Any suggestions what to do from here please? Somehow its losing a volt or so...

Thanks I will check this. Is the link what the manual is calling a "shunt" in the under hood fuse box? Page 208
http://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/catalog/owner_guides/06204og3e.pdf

Thanks. Item 25 in the fuse panel is a small metal bar that links the 2 large wires that connect to the fuse/ relay panel which is in the front left area behind the battery. Doesn't look like a fuse but a small solid metal bar that screws down across the connectors of those wires. I will meter it and see.
Took it off and cleaned it yesterday but didn't see any cracks or signs of damage on it.

Thanks for your guidance and diagram! So the voltage seems to be the same on both sides of the fusible link. It's also the same whether we ground the multimeter to the block or batt post.

Discovered that the starting issue goes away if we use jumper cables to add a ground from the battery to block. I will replace the 2 grounds.

The strange thing now is that tonight the alternator voltage was the same if we metered it using the block or batt post as ground. The other day it was over a volt higher using the block as ground. Tonight though the alternator didn't seem to put out any more than 12.5 volts. Possibly the rebuilt alt is bad?

I guess we will see what happens after the ground cables are replaced.

The battery shows good voltage after I charge it and still showing 12.4 volts after starting it several times and running the engine for 10 mins with the alternator putting out low voltage. Could a battery with a bad cell cause a charging voltage problem?

2004 Ford Escape 6 cyl Four Wheel Drive Automatic 48000 miles

Anyone have any insight on why my battery light flickers at high RPM's, after further testing while sitting idle I could only get the motor to up to 4000 RPM's (that was also the max, seemed like it hit a restrictor)and it also sounded like the engine was missing.

I just replaced belt on my girlfriends 2003 ford escape and now none of the pulleys are turning and it squeals real bad. Looks like 4 wires where stripped when old belt broke looks like but can't tell they go to alternator would that be the problem or did I just do something wrong? Also battery light stays on now