Danny: With complete respect, have you done this kind of work before? It is difficult to determine exactly what you are trying to do. If you are having problems that you feel may be the result of incorrect wiring, I suggest you get a professional to look at it with you and give you some direction. If you want to do it on your own, I strongly suggest getting a copy of Nigel Calder's Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems. Every wire on a boat has a purpose and an appropriate place to connect to form the system. It's very hard for anyone on this list to determine how you should make changes to your boat's wiring without knowing what you have to begin with.
If you would like to, I suggest you make a drawing of the system as it exists, scan or photograph it and email it to me off line and I'll be happy to have a look at it and then discuss it with you. Rich Knowles Indigo LF38 Halifax, Nova Scotia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Electrical Block Okay, so I should Leave it as it was and not take any other wires off of it? I bought 2 terminal blocks to use for positive and ground connections in the engine compartment. Should I run the positive and negative battery wires to those terminals and then to where they connect to the starter solenoid and block? Or, should I run those wires direct and then jump back to the terminal blocks? Danny ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Graham Collins <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Electrical Block Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:16:38 -0300 It is a shunt - essentially a big resistor (low value, high current carrying capacity). The ammeter measures the voltage drop across the shunt and converts that to amps flowing through it (amps = volts/resistance). regards, Graham Collins [email protected] wrote: > One side went to the starter solenoid and the other to the alternator. > Then each side went to the ammeter... > What is its function? > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Steve Thomas <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Stus-List Electrical Block > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:01:31 -0400 > > Looks like it might be a current shunt for an ammeter. > -----Original Message----- > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]*On Behalf Of *Joel Aronson > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:53 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Stus-List Electrical Block > > Danny, > > Almost looks like a high amp fuse, but I think it is just a block. > Might want to move the bilge pump hose off that wire! > BTW, nice stuffing box, but I don't know the answer to the grease > question. > Joel > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Another question.... > > Is this Positive block, just that a positive block or is it > something more? > > <iframe > src="https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=CCBEFDFB44F8315F&resid=CCBEFDFB44F8 315F%21309&authkey=ABkwZnrwurnZ08s > <https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=CCBEFDFB44F8315F&resid=CCBEFDFB44F8315F %21309&authkey=ABkwZnrwurnZ08s>" > width="320" height="180" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> > > or this link if that doesn't work... > > http://sdrv.ms/PebU41 > > Danny > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > -- > Joel > 301 541 8551 > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] -- Graham Collins Secret Plans C&C 35-III #11 _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
