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Has anyone installed an ammeter to your bronco 2. I am trying to figure out where the best place to hook it up is. I also need to find out how many amps my alternator puts out so that I can get some adequate guaged wire...anyone have any suggestions for where I could look (I have already looked in the owners manual and the Chiltons)? So far the best option I have come up with is to cut the battery feed wire going out from the alternator and splice the ammeter between it, what do you all think?
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I have seen them with stock VOLT meters, but none with an ammeter. I don't think I like the idea of an ammeter anyway, it is too much voltage to be screwing with bypasses and the ammeter termals are just TOO close to the other metal parts of the guage set I bought...i am afraid that it is going to ground out and catch fire. Does anyone in here even know what the difference between an ammeter and a Volt meter is? I know I didn't before I got this guage......
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Volt meters messure voltage, ammeters messure current.
You have to hook up a ammeter in series, a voltmeter is hooked up in parralel.
The one thing I was always confused about, is the proper way to hook up an ammeter for an automotive purpose. My stock one only messures negitive when its cranking, since the alternator is rewired for the V-8.
You have to hook up a ammeter in series, a voltmeter is hooked up in parralel.
The one thing I was always confused about, is the proper way to hook up an ammeter for an automotive purpose. My stock one only messures negitive when its cranking, since the alternator is rewired for the V-8.
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If you know that your system is charging and you are reading - Amps on your meter you have it backwards. Ammeters usually hook up - to Alt & + to Battery. I think the stock Alternator is a 60 Amp unit for your application.
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