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How do you hook an AMP gauge in a 71 corvette?? Darrow is a busy man :quote: and does not have time to post his own questions. So can you guy's help Darrow out. Darrow thanks you for your support.
How do you hook an AMP gauge in a 71 corvette?? Darrow is a busy man :quote: and does not have time to post his own questions. So can you guy's help Darrow out. Darrow thanks you for your support.
How do you hook an AMP gauge in a 71 corvette?? Darrow is a busy man :quote: and does not have time to post his own questions. So can you guy's help Darrow out. Darrow thanks you for your support.
well that is not quite the way it is BUT
I read three electrical drawings and come up with three different ways to do it. What one is right?
Is one side to the generator and the other to ground? The reason for the question is I found a lot of cut wiring and the amp gage is one of them. Also I am changing the oil pressure gage to a sending unit instead of oil pressure due to a problem that I caused. ( need new carpet.)
An ammeter must go in series with the load. It should go between the wire providing power to the fuse block and the fuse block.
To be honest I prefer a volt meter.
are the amp meters in or Vettes ture amp meters or are they a volt meter that measures a voltage drop across a shunt and displays it as an amperage?
are the amp meters in or Vettes ture amp meters or are they a volt meter that measures a voltage drop across a shunt and displays it as an amperage?
An ammeter must go in series with the load.
An ammeter must go in series with the load.
Not always.
I dunno WTF what was on the minds of the old vette engineers on that amp meter crap....
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I dunno WTF what was on the minds of the old vette engineers on that amp meter crap....
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Ammeter all the way.....
I could show you how to read it correctly :toothbrush: :harhar: :yahoo:
I used a assembly manual with 71 wiring digrams and taped them togeather so I could follow them. and the wires are a black to battery hot and the black with white stripe to the alternater clip.
Does a volt meter show discharge
I used a assembly manual with 71 wiring digrams and taped them togeather so I could follow them. and the wires are a black to battery hot and the black with white stripe to the alternater clip.
Does a volt meter show discharge
Sure does, instantly....14.8 volts when first start engine, dumping alt current into battery, 13.3 or damn close when running for a while, maybe ten minits or so.....if it's ever less than 12.8 you are getting into heavy draw, bunch of cooling fans or HVAC running, headlights on, radio blaring....anything less than 12.8 you are draining the battery....
now with that ampmeter in there, look at the resolution, +- 40 amps in about 1/2" of deflection, center is zero, you can be draining the battery and that ampmeter hardly shows deflection, do it long enough, and you fail to start....lets say you running without AC, and it's daylight, alt is dead, that damn ampmeter will read damn nearly dead on the zero mark, and at a glance no one can tell WTF the thing says....a VM reads 8-16 volts in a 90* sweep, you can tell at a glance, without a microscope....
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I used a assembly manual with 71 wiring digrams and taped them togeather so I could follow them. and the wires are a black to battery hot and the black with white stripe to the alternater clip.
Does a volt meter show discharge
Sure does, instantly....14.8 volts when first start engine, dumping alt current into battery, 13.3 or damn close when running for a while, maybe ten minits or so.....if it's ever less than 12.8 you are getting into heavy draw, bunch of cooling fans or HVAC running, headlights on, radio blaring....anything less than 12.8 you are draining the battery....
now with that ampmeter in there, look at the resolution, +- 40 amps in about 1/2" of deflection, center is zero, you can be draining the battery and that ampmeter hardly shows deflection, do it long enough, and you fail to start....lets say you running without AC, and it's daylight, alt is dead, that damn ampmeter will read damn nearly dead on the zero mark, and at a glance no one can tell WTF the thing says....a VM reads 8-16 volts in a 90* sweep, you can tell at a glance, without a microscope....
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Even without hydroboost? You sure about that? I thought hydroboost cured Herpes also.
noonie vs donkey, should I update the word censor here ?