[DeTomaso] Voltage gauge

[Dennis Sanford]

Mike,

 

Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that you don't always know when the
wires have loosened or the contacts have become slightly corroded.  I had
smoke start coming from my dashboard while I was driving, you never saw
someone move so fast as I stopped the car, jumped out, opened the front
trunk and ripped the battery cables off with my bare hands to stop the car
from going up in flames.  The second gauge I had years later got so hot that
it melted the plastic insulators and eventually shorted out the gauge.  With
a voltmeter you don't have any of these overheating problems, you are just
reading the voltage in the system not the current draw going through the
gauge.  

 

From: MikeLDrew at aol.com [mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:06 PM
To: dennis617 at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Voltage gauge

 


In a message dated 9/13/12 7 49 41, dennis617 at aol.com writes:





Does anyone have a source for a battery/voltage gauge thatmatches the
original Viglia gauges?  I would love to get rid of thetroublesome ammeter
but I would like to keep the original look.



>>>While Veglia voltmeters are available, they look nothing like the Pantera
gauges.

The ammeter is not troublesome, any more than a voltmeter is.  You either
have the connections tight and secure, in which case there are no problems,
or you leave your connections loose, in which case there can be problems.
Just tighten your connections and live happily ever after. :>)

Mike