[bullheimer]

i know all the current has to go thru the ammeter. on my truck i wired the whole thing i just ran straight to the ammeter from the battery then to my fuse box.

now i am installing (or trying to) a U-14 instrument cluster into my stupid camaro <---

where is the best place to connect my wires for my ammeter on a second gen camaro? do i have to run to the battery? and how the hell am i gonna get it in series with the rest of everything? is there somewhere on the fusebox i can connect to w/o going into the engine compartment? help me mr. wizzard!

[bullheimer]

posted that all current has to go thru the ammeter and got this back:

Camarofanatic73 is correct. Do not attempt to pull amperage across that meter or you WILL fry it. They are not really ammeters at all. They are differential voltage meters. They read the voltage on the main harness and the voltage on the alternator output and it gives an estimation of how much amperage is being applied based on the voltage drop or gain across those points.

what the hell does he mean "it's not really and ammeter?"

[malc]

Install a voltmeter http://www.madelectrical.com/electri...p-gauges.shtml

[bullheimer]

does this look like it might be right:

[bullheimer]

the above doesnt equate to my camaro. i have a black #10 to my horn relay and a red #10 to it. the black goes i think to the starter and the red to the alternator. i put my guage in series with each wire and it didnt move. also my gas gauge doesnt move and my tach (that got rebuilt) doesnt move. i think i have a problem with the ground on the back of the inst. cluster, although i know i hooked it up, and my CLOCK frikken works!!! all my lights work too, so how could it be the ground anyway? bad idea. i have another smaller like 12ga wire on my horn relay, if i disconnect it the car wont get ing. power so no start/no lights. i put the guage in series with that and no moviee.

any ideas?..................................