Remove the guage and hook the wires back the way they were. If the car
operates normally, it means your ammeter became a very pretty and single
use fuse. If you had the full current of the starter going through it from
the battery, it will certainly pop easily. Most ammeters have a shunt bar
bolted to the back that carries the main current and only a bit (usually
100 mA) goes through the guage for a full movement sweep of the needle.
You might find that the guage can only measure a maximum of 50 amps or so-
which means you can't hook it between the starter and the battery since it
will pull over 100 amps easily during a startup.
Personally I would probably hook up such a guage (center zero movements
give you the best info) between the generator/alternator lead that goes to
the battery. We know when the battery is being discharged - it's always
being discharged while the car is running. But what you really need to
know is what the charging system is putting back into the battery- if
anything at all.
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