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Limiting available energy for initial tests 1800 1973

posted by  Chris Mullet on  Fri Mar 16 20:33 CST 2018
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Well, I powered it up - no sparks or smoke! Used a 20 amp fuse inline at the battery terminal until I got confident and connected the battery cable direct. Outside of a missing W/Wiper switch, things seem to be working pretty well.

One disappointment though is that the instrument lighting is very dim. Even if I take the rheostat out of the equation (full current to the bulbs) they're awfully dim. All the bulbs are equally dim which makes think I have a bottleneck in the wire somewhere. All the instruments are properly grounded. There is little or no drop in voltage when the lights are turned on, so I'd guess I'm OK on the supply side. The bulbs are 3W which agrees with the info on the schematic. Are these lights inherently weak?






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New Under Dash Wire Harness Routing [1800][1973]
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