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Re: Voltage stabilizer, part III

To: "The Sinclairs" <rhsinclair@qwest.net>, "Mg list"
Subject: Re: Voltage stabilizer, part III
From: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:26:23 -0000
As Rick says plus if you operate it without being connected to ground it
will suffer no harm, but will cause the gauges to read high as the pulsing
that Rick describes will not occur and the gauge(s) will get a constant 12v
and not a pulsed supply.

PaulH.

----- Original Message -----
From: The Sinclairs <rhsinclair@qwest.net>
To: Mg list <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:01 PM
Subject: Voltage stabilizer, part III


> You may remember I've had trouble with this before, but I
> think I'm close to finding the answer. I just got a new one
> from Moss, and hooked it up, (though without attaching it to
> the bulkhead, thus not giving it a ground), and it started
> smoking. I got it disconnected before it was hurt (I think),
> but now I'm afraid to reconnect it. I read on the archives
> that connecting the wires to it without grounding it will
> cause 13 volts to go through it, but is that enough to burn
> it up?
>    Thanks for the help.
> Rory
> '68 B

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