12-04-2008, 08:20 AM | #1 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Lowndes County Ga.
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voltage gap
My old 83 quit on me last weekend ,, i'm going to get it back going , but I have ran across somthing that puzzles me and thought I would see if this is 'normal ' ,, The switch that operates the starter when you press the accelator has 12.6 volts going into it ,but only 9.3 coming out when operated ,, the switch is only a week old and in good appearing condition , is it normal to loose 3 volts in a switch ???? it looses the 3+ volts with or without the wire attached to the out side . strange .
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12-04-2008, 10:53 PM | #2 |
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Re: voltage gap
If you operated the switch several times, and the load was shorted or bad, you could have arced the contacts in the switch. If that happened, you could have a voltage drop across the switch. Take both wires off and using an ohm meter see if you get 0 ohms when you close the switch. If not the switch is bad.
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12-05-2008, 05:21 AM | #3 |
Gone Wild
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Re: voltage gap
Checked that and did not get 0 ohms , also found a come and go open in the key switch and replaced several secondary wires that had been spliced with 'barrell' squeze on connectors , havn't had this cart very long and this was the first time I had looked at it real close . The bad switch was 'new' last week , old one broke so I went to the local dealer and bought it and put it on for the first time last week and it's already bad , guess there are rotten apples in every barrell . any way it's going now ,, thanks for the reply ,,,
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