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Yeah, make sure you read that it's 8oz not 8grams... Tube is much bigger than a tube of toothpaste, small jars are about the size of a delicatessen jam. I wouldn't have ordered the jars had I noticed that at the time...

Remember that all of the lights go through that fuse as well as the horn power, so that the service/blackout switch can control them at a single point and modifications or additions to the original lighting design has an impact on this one fuse's draw. IMHO this is the one weak point in the...

Stuck at the apartment with kids this morning so I'll catch up on the posts I missed yesterday. Oxidation of copper is the reaction of oxygen atoms with the copper atoms. This reaction converts copper into copper oxide, a blackish substance. The copper starts to look "dull", then dark, then...

I'll be picking at the Blazer in the evenings this weekend, biggest deal I need to focus on is getting out of the other storage unit - only have this weekend and next weekend to do it, and I'd rather be done this week so I can work on the Blazer. I also have to strip the parts out of the Toyota...

Oxygen free is a marketing thing - copper oxidizes rapidly in the presence of Earth's atmosphere, unless you coat the individual strands of copper with something like tin immediately after production, the copper will corrode eventually. Yeah, the 4/0 I've been looking at is 10290 strands of 36...

Combination (truck+trailer)

Welcome, and don't worry too much about judgement here - we're all nuts :mrgreen: If you don't see a lot of frame and lower body rust, it may just be that it sat in a shop/garage on a base somewhere (not on dirt or gravel where moisture evaporate up from the ground and condenses on the...

to me it feels small relative to other ballparks I've been to - including the Oakland A's Coliseum and the Reds Great American Ballpark

Wait... re-read the OP's questions and take another look at my proposed schematic (also he's talking about controlling 12V lights, so that volt drop is no longer "negligible"). Again, it's the voltage * current I'm more bothered by in a power circuit. That voltage drop is constant (and for...

Should have take a hint form Neo and taking the Red one... [thumbzup]

Plenty for relays, which is still my advise. Diodes drop (consume) a specific voltage, volts * amps = watts, the desire should be to reduce loads that pass through lossy componets IMHO...

When all else fails, girth. Not much happening on the truck tonight... Reds are in town, so the in-laws are at the game with us.

Today was a bust project-wise, just leaving the office now at 2120. More parts were delivered today apparently, and I ordered new battery cable terminals and lugs while I was stuck in meetings (say it with me, the internet is awesome!!). Primary battery and slave port cables will be 4/0...

From that picture, the positive is at the top of the picture exiting the left side of the image, the ground is the fat cable at the bottom of the picture exiting to the right of the image (I may have + - reversed) - the little wire coming out from the case of the alternator going to the...

Time for some tacos :)

Look at Anderson Power Products plugs for doing 12v jumping. I warn people agaist taking a standard plug in the original application and retasking it for something unexpected, one day you may need a jump and some well meaning MV owner may plug into your slave port before you realize it, and...

If the paint was'n't flaking off when they painted it, a sand blaster on lower pressure with finer grit sand should do it. May take a minute or more to cl an a square foot of surface that way, so patience is the key. Also, have you tried asking CARNAC on the vin thread about your truck?

To do the test, take one wire from the test light and... WAIT... [TANGENT:] And that reminds me to make one caution... use your HF multimeter first in the 30V or higher setting - if your resistor pack is in place for 24V power supply to the glow relay, hooking up a 12V bulb to the unswitched...

Batteries more specifically, or in the CUCV original wiring, the lower 12V battery & alternator... For a series string you are current limited by the lowest capacity device in the string, but when you tap a battery in the string, you are drawing what the series string is supplying, plus...

Yes, any low wattage (<10W) lamp or even a light bulb with wire soldered to it will work. A test light illuminating demonstrates that there is enough voltage and current available between the two connection points to light up a bulb. HF multi-meter will work too. Let's back up a bit and talk...