[DeTomaso] Veglia Amp Gauge Needed
Tomas Gunnarsson
guson at home.se
Tue Jun 18 10:50:43 EDT 2013
In stock configuration not "all" the current goes through it either.
Under normal conditions only the battery charging current goes through
it. When people start connecting power consumers to the battery + post
things change however.
Tomas
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From: MikeLDrew at aol.com [MikeLDrew at aol.com]
Sent: 18/6/2013 4:37:46 PM
To: pantdino at aol.com;demongusta at me.com;mbefthomas at comcast.net
Cc: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Veglia Amp Gauge Needed
In a message dated 6/17/13 21 43 49, pantdino at aol.com writes:
>
> But do you actually want to reinstall an original amp gauge?
> I thought they were a fire hazard because ALL the current goes thru
them.
> Aren't voltmeters safer?
>
>>>Perhaps, but ammeters are not, in and of themselves, a fire hazard.
The hazard comes from allowing the connections to be loose.
At least one Pantera vendor sells an aftermarket ammeter which they say
is
superior to the stock one, claiming that the stock one is a fire hazard.
Nonsense. The hazard comes from the way it is hooked up. The act of
removing the old one and installing a new one (properly) eliminates the
potential
hazard. Checking your connections and making them tight on the old one
does the same thing.
There have been more than a few electrical fires due to owners adding
circuits to the back side of the ammeter (it's a good place to draw
power for
accessories) and failing to ensure the connections were made tightly.
But
that's not the ammeter's fault.
Mike
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