[DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit
Thomas Tornblom
thomas at hax.se
Tue Jul 24 05:01:09 EDT 2012
More than one owner has had problems with the ammeter, and when you
connect a consumer to the battery, all the current to that consumer has
to go through the ammeter, which put unnecessary strain on it.
Thomas
CoatesR8 at aol.com skrev 2012-07-24 08.57:
> I agree with you on that one Thaoms, but when you consider how often we
> use the lights on a Pantera , especially when the engine is not running,
> I still think that it makes little difference where it is connected to.
> The important thing is that it is fused.
> Roger.
> In a message dated 23/07/2012 11:48:51 GMT Daylight Time, guson at home.se
> writes:
>
> 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 ;-) )
>
> <-----Ursprungligt Meddelande----->
> 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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