[Tigers] Tiger Mk II wiring

[Ron Fraser]

Stu
	This ammeter has 35 on the face and it has 2 heavy brown wires
attached.

The original generator was rated at 25A so a 30A gauge seems right.

When I converted my Tiger to an alternator system I used the same 30A
ammeter with a 55A alternator; no problem so far but then I try to keep my
battery charged all the time.

Ron Fraser

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From: stubrennan at comcast.net [mailto:stubrennan at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 2:32 PM
To: rfraser at bluefrog.com
Cc: rande at thecia.net; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Mk II wiring


>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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