Electrical Question

[DRR-24V]

You can see I am no electrician. On installing 3 guages, rather than running in 3 hot and 3 ground wires for dimming the gauges, can't I hook all 3 gauges in series and only use 2 wires? Or will this pull too many volts?

 

[MidwestMotorman]

short work

You should be able to do that as your dash lights are all in series. Maybe if the bulbs were like spotlights, then you might have to wire each one.

 

[Pete Peterson]

Don, it will work just fine. Tie them together dress it up to look good and your in bussiness... ... ... Pete

 

[DRR-24V]

Ok Guy's,

That answers my question. I will do it. The gauges are in a pod and this makes it much easier. Thanks to all. ]

 

[Great White]

Series vs parallel

Series is where the electrons flow down ONE path, this results in voltage drops at each load. The lamps must be selected for the voltage resulting from the divider. This is like those cheesy christmas lights where one lamp fails and whole string does not work. *%@#*$%^$%^ :



Parallel (the way the dash lamps are wired) is where the path splits and all lamps are furnished with the same voltage. Each lamp draws it's respective current and total load is the sum of each of the branches.



Just thought a little clarification would help. Rich

 

[SFord]

Thats how I ran mine. I just soldered the grounds and the pos. together and ran two wires for all three gauges----to the headlight switch for dimming.