The method below is spot on. However, I think it worth clarifying the first
statement " you must place the ammeter in series with the battery". The ammeter
is in series with the feed to everything except the starter motor itself. If
one was to wire the ammeter in series with the main feed wire from the battery
itself, this would blow the ammeter to kingdom come, the first time the engine
was started.
Rgds
Mike Brooks
'56 BN2 Milano Italy
Simon--you must place the ammeter in series with the battery. The
> best way
> to do this is first disconnect the battery. Second, disconnect
> both ends of
>
> the brown wire leading from the starter solenoid to control box
> terminal A.
> Third. once the ammeter has been installed in the cockpit, run a
> wire from
> the starter solenoid where one end of the brown wire had been
> connected to
> one of the ammeter terminals. Run a second wire back from the second
> terminal to Control box terminal A where the other end brown wire
> had been
> connected originally.
>
> Reconnect the battery and turn on the ignition. If you get a
> discharge
> reading on the ammeter you are wired correctly. If you get a
> charge on the
> ammeter you have the terminals backwards, Disconnect the battery
> and switch
>
> the wires attached to the ammeter...........................
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