12-20-2020, 01:00 PM | #1 |
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Hot Ammeter!
Oooo, baby. That ammeter got HOT!!
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12-20-2020, 01:55 PM | #2 |
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Lose wiring, can burn up the whole car!!
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12-20-2020, 02:38 PM | #3 |
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Not mine!! Saw it for sale on e-Bay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-Model-...e/184587393089
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On a Model T, was wondering why it was back lit seeing the glow from the front. Was a nice meter before that!
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Contacts should be bright shinny metal. Use some electrical grease. Make sure the fasteners are tight. Unless you are running 100 amps through your ammeter that should keep it from burning up.
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Or the trash can?? Even melted the plastic off of the wire nuts!
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I've had all sorts of issues trying to get my speedster running properly and when local expert Errol, suggested looking at the ammeter, I found a similar result to that in the photo. With no fuse in the original wiring loom it can be the ammeter that fails when overloaded. Mine was a repo as I needed a 30 volt reading with an alternator, and it looks like the quality may not be up to the originals?
Somehow the points in my Mallory distributor fried themselves taking out the coil too. I can't comprehend how that happened, must have been a short, but replacing both (and the ammeter) has restored the motor to robust health. |
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I cured the hot ammeter with new nuts and soldering the bolt heads to the internal metal--- then I had to take it apart again to paint the cleaned brass and solder flat black because I could see it
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Original ammeter cant figure out how to put it together mainly the needle it all came apart when glass broke pushing it in to small a hole in repo. dash.
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I am thinking of switching to a voltmeter due to the risk of fire with the ammeter.
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Now you've done it, I've been driving for 65 years and never realized that ammeters are a fire hazard.
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Dump the ammeter! Before doing so Check each terminal to the case of the ammeter! Also look for short or burn marks anywhere behind the suspect meter looking for a "not wanted ground point!" If either terminal was shorted to ground, by the backing area or the case of the meter that is the problem. If not, replace the ammeter and install loose (INSULATE THE TERMINALS) and check if it operates properly. If so, the shorted ammeter was the problem. Ground can be a good thing, and in the wrong place a bad thing!
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