Amp vs volts

[THE "10" SILVERADO]

Originally Posted by mtchevytruck

Got it done successfully! More differences in clusters than I would have thought. Volt and amp gauges are not interchangeable!! Amp gauge has, in layman's terms, full voltage running through it in a continuous stream of current. Volt gauge is more like other basic gauges with a power, ground, and a feed wire that fluctuates (more or less) either positive or negative.

Yeah I asked about that a while back since I had been wanting to see the difference.....even though that cluster had a amp couldn't you just take out the amp gauge and put in a volt gauge? But yeah, from the responses amp gauges were a bad thing if you wanted to put in a new one...