[DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit
Roland Jaeckel
pantera874 at t-online.de
Tue Jul 24 05:54:15 EDT 2012
See, that and way more difficulties with the ammeter brought me to the point
to throw it away and fill the hole with a mutch more needed oiltemp gauge.
I replaced also the alternator with a quality 80 amps alternator from Bosch.
Roland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Tornblom" <thomas at hax.se>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Best place to hook up a new circuit
> 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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