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#94871 02/28/2006 1:46 AM
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This might be a dumb question but here goes anyway. Will the 6 volt amp guage work all right on 12 volts or does it need a voltage reducer in line? Its on a 51 chevy.

#94872 02/28/2006 2:38 AM
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Amps is amps. It don't care about volts.


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#94873 02/28/2006 4:20 AM
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What cletis said.

and it's an Ammeter, not an AMP gauge.


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#94874 02/28/2006 8:12 AM
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You can think of it like water. Volts are the speed of the water, AMPs are volume of water passing through. So when headlights or starter goes - it takes a lot of 'water' to make them go.

And that's why it takes a big hose (heavy gauge wire) to things that use a lot of 'water' or 'current'. Eh eh eh? Get it? Big pipe, lots o water, lots o amps, lots o current?


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