Adding ammeter to one wire Alt.

[vintovka]

In process of removing old ratty add on ammeter. When shop installed new engine they converted new Alt to a one wire set up they warned me old ammeter would not work anymore. Have a new ammeter to install but confused (my normal state). Anyone have a nice simple diagram showing wiring set up for one wire alt to ammeter?

[jkmhb]

here's a link to wiring an ammeter. But, if your old ammeter worked before, it still could have worked with a 1 wire alternator.
http://www.fwmurphy.com/uploaded/doc...00-02-0207.pdf

[Black93GT]

After a quick Google search....


And



Or

[mr48chev]

Ammeter just tells you what direction the current is flowing and how much is flowing. It doesn't tell the state of charge of your battery or tell how much of a charge your alternator/generator is putting out. Basically a Yup it reads + it's keeping up with or ahead of the demand, OOPs it's reading - the systems on the rig are drawing more juice than the alternator is putting out.