Guys, my Chevy's been sitting since the fire half apart and I'm trying to put it back on the road. I have a stock '54 gauge cluster that I took the amp gauge out of. Through my own ignorance, I wired it incorrectly and burned the wires. I replaced it with a SunPro volt meter and was trying to bench test it before I bother installing it. I'd read here to test with a battery charger set on 2 amps to maintain a low current. I connected the neg. cable from the charger to the neg. post on the gauge and the positive cable to a wire attached to the positive gauge post. As soon as the cable touched it made a loud pop and spark. Should I just say forget it and save up to send the gauges in to be converted, or is there something I'm missing to what I'm trying to do? Thanks! Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
If you're hooking up a amp meter you need to split a hot wire and hook each wire to the posts on the meter (put the meter in line with the hot wire) . It measures current flow through the wire. I think you tried hooking it up like a volt meter (positive to one post negative to the other post) that's why you heard the pop and fried it. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
No, this is a volt meter. The amp meter is gone. It caught fire because I reused the wiring the previous owner had for a volt meter when I wasn't paying attention and hooked it up to the stock amp meter. Once again, I'm installing/testing a VOLT meter I purchased and it in place of the amp meter. Thanks. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
That test should have worked on a volt meter. Mabey it was defective, a sun pro isn't the highest quality stuff. I'd try it again with a better gauge. Normal Norman
What's a "better gauge"? I'm taking these out of the housings to fit in the stock '54 cluster, Thanks. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
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