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Re: Ammeter wiring

To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Ammeter wiring
From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:21:33 -0700
re:

"Finally you can cut off the ends of the original brown wire if you 
want. You will not be needed it."


Why not leave them in place, so you can bypass the ammeter if necessary?


bs


Simon Lachlan wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Trifari [mailto:jtrifari@comcast.net] 
>Sent: 26 October 2006 17:38
>To: Simon Lachlan
>Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Ammeter wiring
>
>Simon--you must place the ammeter in series with the battery.  The best way 
>to do this is first disconnect the battery.  Second, disconnect both ends of
>
>the brown wire leading from the starter solenoid to control box terminal A.
>Third.  once the ammeter has been installed in the cockpit, run a wire from 
>the starter solenoid where one end of the brown wire had been connected to 
>one of the ammeter terminals.  Run a second wire back from the second 
>terminal to Control box terminal A where the other end brown wire had been 
>connected originally.
>
>    Reconnect the battery and turn on the ignition.  If you get a discharge 
>reading on the ammeter you are wired correctly.  If you get a charge on the 
>ammeter you have the terminals backwards,  Disconnect the battery and switch
>
>the wires attached to the ammeter.
>
>    I use 12-gauge wire covered in shrink tubing for added insulation. 
>12-gauge is about the size of the original brown wire.  Don't forget 
>grommets where the wires pass through the firewall.    Finally you can cut 
>off the ends of the original brown wire if you want.  You will not be needed
>
>it.  BTW  positive or negative ground does not matter.  Hope this helps 
>John Trifari   Golden Gate Austin Healey Club
>
>Thanks John, that's just what I needed (and hoped) to hear.
>Simon.




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