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#94871 02/28/2006 1:46 AM | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 154 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 154 | 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 | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | Amps is amps. It don't care about volts. | | |
#94873 02/28/2006 4:20 AM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | What cletis said.
and it's an Ammeter, not an AMP gauge. | | |
#94874 02/28/2006 8:12 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | 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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