[DeTomaso] Electrical questions--HELP!

[Thomas Tornblom]

mc121639 at teradata-ncr.com skrev:
> Chris,
>    As luck would have it my fans quit working as soon as I got to Vegas on
> on Wednesday. I wasn't able to figure out what happened (I'm probably going
> to have to drag poor SOBill into this one. . . :^) but I wired the fans
> directly to the battery for the drive home. After doing that my ammeter
> was showing exactly what you are describing.
> 
>    I was afraid I was going to burn up the alternator so I kept the fans
> disconnected until I got off of the freeway near my house. It seems like
> it should have been OK to have them on for the drive since I didn't add
> any additional loads than normal but I don't know much about electricity
> so I decided to play it safe.
> 
> Thomas,
>    I think you are saying I would have been fine to have the fans connected
> and just let the ammeter show 75 amps --- am I understanding what you wrote?
> I'm not totally sure I understand exactly what the ammeter is trying to tell
> me but I was figuring moving the fans out of their normal circuit and
> connecting directly to the battery was "confusing" the ammeter relative to
> having things connected normally.

Correct.

> 
> Thanks!

Cheers,
Thomas

> 
>    --mike
> 
>> Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se> said:
>> Do you have any consumers connected directly to the battery instead of 
>> through the cars wiring?
>>
>> The new fans perhaps?
>>
>> If so, then any current these consumers are using will have to go 
>> through the ammeter and it will indicate that it is charging the 
>> battery, when in fact the current goes to the consumer instead of to the 
>> battery.
>>
>> When I installed my monster Audi turbo fan, and needed more power, I 
>> added a fairly heavy wire directly to the ammeter, on the post with the 
>> cable coming from the alternator. The fan has a separate 80A fuse.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Thomas
>>
>>> "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com> said:
>>> 2) The other problem is that when the car is running, the ammeter pegs to 
>>> the right all the way.  Although I'm completely pathetic as a mechanic, I do 
>>> know that although it's good that the alternator is providing power, the 
>>> needle is supposed to sit about in the middle of the gauge, not all the way 
>>> to the right.  What do I need to do to correct this problem?
> 
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