Posted by z on June 28, 2012, 7:05 pm
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>> traced to a bad ground wire in her nearly new ford commecial van.....
>>
>> i leared a lot fom that volunteer job....
>
> I was in the audio biz at one time and grounds are all important.
>
> As far as vehicles, grounds are always suspect.
>
Heh.. the instrument cluster ground was bad in my old bmw .. when you
cranked the stereo the gas gauge would jump in time with the beat :)
Posted by Mho on June 28, 2012, 9:59 pm
First Color Organ? Did you get it to trigger the low fuel lamp?
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Heh.. the instrument cluster ground was bad in my old bmw .. when you
cranked the stereo the gas gauge would jump in time with the beat :)
Posted by Ralph Mowery on June 3, 2012, 3:24 am
> In Army Signal Corps electronic school the instructors doctored AGC glass
> fuses to remind us to check them with a meter, not just by sight. They
> heated one end cap to melt the glue and pop off the cap, then inserted
> too-short heavy bus wire and even blue ("the fuse blew") paper to make it
> look good again. I caught the 1 Amp fuse with 12 AWG wire inside it
> visually and went up to joke with the instructor about it, then we watched
> most of the class pull out the phony fuses, give them a puzzled look, put
> them back and continue troubleshooting.
> jsw
Also check the new fuse before putting it back in. I have seen lots of new
fuses that are bad. I opened a new box that had about a dozen high dollar
fuses (something like 100 amp bolt in fuses) and over half of them were
open.
Posted by The Real Bev on June 3, 2012, 5:28 am
On 06/02/2012 08:24 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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>> In Army Signal Corps electronic school the instructors doctored AGC glass
When did 3AG fuses become AGC? Serious question...
--
Cheers, Bev
"This software is as user-friendly as a cornered rat!"
Posted by Jim Wilkins on June 3, 2012, 7:01 am
> On 06/02/2012 08:24 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
>>>
>>> In Army Signal Corps electronic school the instructors doctored
>>> AGC glass
> When did 3AG fuses become AGC? Serious question...
> --
> Cheers, Bev
> "This software is as user-friendly as a cornered rat!"
3AG is one of several sizes within the AGC classification.
http://www.jaycar.com.au/images_uploaded/fuseprmr.pdf
jsw
>> traced to a bad ground wire in her nearly new ford commecial van.....
>>
>> i leared a lot fom that volunteer job....
>
> I was in the audio biz at one time and grounds are all important.
>
> As far as vehicles, grounds are always suspect.
>