[DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Contrary to what many think the battery is not the main source of power
in a car. It's the alternator. If you hook up a load to the battery post
you feed the load from the alternator via the ammeter when the engine is
running which is suboptimal. If you hook it up to the fuse box you feed
the load directly from the alternator when the engine is running and
from the battery via the ammeter when the engine is not running.
 
Tomas (filling in for Thomas ;-) )

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From: Roger [coatesr8 at aol.com]
Sent: 23/7/2012 7:42:14 AM
To: thomas
Cc: CharlesMcCall,
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit

Surely if you understand electrics Thomas, you can perhaps explain what
the difference is between a fused link direct from the battery, and a
fused link from the fuse box ( which incidentally connects to the
battery)

Roger

Sent from Roger's iPhone

On 22 Jul 2012, at 23:43, thomas <thomas at hax.se> wrote:

> Anyone recommending hooking up a power drain directly to the battery
of a Pantera, or any car with an ammeter, has no clue about automotive
electrics.
> 
> Unless it is a starter, or a drain only used while stationary, it is
just plain wrong.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 22 jul 2012 kl. 17:25 skrev "CharlesMcCall" <charlesmccall at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The now-famous Loire Valley Tour participants were kind enough to
chip in
>> and buy us a set of Xenon lights for my Pantera.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I saw these installed on Roger Coates' GT5-S 2 years ago, and was
struck by
>> the difference in light output - every time we went through a tunnel,
I
>> could tell which car was his without glancing twice - it put out a
lot of
>> light. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> (as a side-note, it is interesting to note the hand-made nature of
this
>> car... taking off the headlight trim pieces, they are held in place
by a
>> simple drilled-and-tapped hole. The splash shield in FRONT of the
front
>> tires - some of the nuts are installed nut-side out, and others
bolt-side
>> out. Maybe this was done by someone else along the way, but I can't
think of
>> any reason why a mechanic would have done that under my care. The
passenger
>> side and drivers side are different, so I assume it was whim when
assembling
>> the car in the factory. Kind of hard to see, but here's the front of
the car
>> with the splash shield removed:
>> 
>> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36721
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On the back of the splash shield is the air-horn, stock on this car,
as seen
>> here:
>> 
>> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36718
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Anyway, I digress. I need to hook up the xenon lights to a 12v
source, and
>> according to the directions I should hook it right up to the battery.
It has
>> its own 25amp fuse, but there seems something a little primitive
about
>> running a wire directly to the battery for each new circuit I want to
add. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Electrical people out there - what's your recommendation? The cable
is
>> rather short and I don't have a lot of room... hook it directly to
the
>> battery, or ??
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Charles McCall
>> Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
>> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
>> <http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323>
>> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323
>> 
>> 
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