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Post by patch77 on Oct 31, 2019 13:12:21 GMT
I have a 3.0 mk3. Been off the road for a while used it a couple of times been fine. Used it the other day and smoke started coming from behind the ammeter and it melted the plastic coating on the spade connector on the back of it. Anyone had this problem before?
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Post by Eric R on Oct 31, 2019 16:52:22 GMT
the binnacle Bakelite had a habit of melting around the bulbs.
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Post by dmaxwell on Oct 31, 2019 18:20:41 GMT
Never had smoke but the Ammeter did die on me once. Lost all connection and the car would not do ANYTHING! Of course I was 40 miles from home too so it took me about an hour to figure out what happened and connect the two wires to each other to get the car running! Then I had to find someplace in the US to get a replacement. It's been 25 years and I forget where the replacement came from now. The joy of owning old cars (of any make).
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Post by djm16 on Nov 1, 2019 1:19:08 GMT
You surely have a short circuit.
To confirm this, check what the needle is doing. Hitting the end stop of course confirms the short. It may of course be an intermittent short. They can be very hard to track down.
If the needle is moving but not hitting the end stop, then you most likely just have a poor connection at the back of the ammeter. However the spade connector and wire will likely now be annealed and therefore too soft.
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Post by patch77 on Nov 1, 2019 13:13:01 GMT
The needle moves as it should and doesn’t hit the end stop. I’ll check the connections over the weekend
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Nov 1, 2019 15:01:16 GMT
The needle moves as it should and doesn’t hit the end stop. I’ll check the connections over the weekend Spade terminal arcing
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Post by patch77 on Nov 2, 2019 0:40:03 GMT
I’ve tried a different ammeter and at the moment seems to be ok. Cheers for suggestions. Will see how it goes
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