[Tigers] Tiger Mk II wiring

stubrennan at comcast.net stubrennan at comcast.net
Fri Apr 27 12:32:11 MDT 2012


>From the way my ammeter was wired,I suspect that wiring was not part of the kit for Ammeters for Generator cars.  My gauge had never moved off zero, maybe a twitch once in a while, so one day I traced it out.  The installer had run some really thin, maybe #28 or so, plastic insulated wires to a couple points that had little to do with the charging current.   Had 30A run through these wires, there would have been a flash, maybe a fire...  I properly wired it, and now it indicates fine.

My generator car has a +/-30A Ammeter, because that's all the generator could produce.  Didn't the alternators on Mk 2 cars have a much higher output than 30A, so they would need a differernt Ammeter?

Stu 


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