When I purchased Alfas with no engine or when I stripped my boatail down and 3 years later reassembled. I put a low amperage 12 volt cd power supply to the battery cables with no battery connected. This gave me enough current to check for shorts and test lights and fan etc. no smoke and no burned wires. Ground s on new painted surfaces were the biggest troubles
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2014, at 2:30 AM, [email protected] (alfa-digest) wrote: > > > alfa-digest Thursday, June 12 2014 Volume 10 : Number 2726 > > > > Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc. > Richard Welty <[email protected]> > Digest Coordinator > > Contents: > > [alfa] Duetto and 105 series litterature > [alfa] 91 Spider Air Bag Light > [alfa] RE: Modelle"s current draw > [alfa] Re: Leaking oil drain plug, etc > Re: [alfa] RE: Modelle"s current draw > [alfa] administrivia: Powell's Books > > Alfa Digest Home Page: > > http://www.digest.net/alfa/ > > Send submissions to [email protected] > > Send administrative requests to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of > the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address > than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a > message to alfa-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo > commands. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:59:23 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Wille R." <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Duetto and 105 series litterature > > Morning, ther is a site at > > www.duettoinfo.com > > with a lot of brochures, manuals, parts list etc for you lucky guys with a > Duetto and the similar Alfas from the old days. > > Cordiali saluti > > Wille R. > ************************ > www.orsoveloce.com > www.veloce.se > www.duettoregister.com > - -- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:15:34 -0400 > From: Tony Corvino <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] 91 Spider Air Bag Light > > Hello, > Sometimes when I drive on a rough surface road with some potholes my airbag light flashes and than stays on? I reset it and the next rough spot and its on again.I removed the sensors in front cleaned the contacts not long ago.Any ideas? > Thanks,Tony > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:05:49 -0500 > From: "Carl R. Davis" <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] RE: Modelle"s current draw > >>> Question: After restoring the fuse panel on an old Alfa, installing a > rebuilt engine and rewiring many accessories, lights, horn etc... Shouldn't > there be no-conductivity between pos and neg battery terminal leads? I've > got everything back together and am afeared to connect the battery because > of general circuit conductivity. Everything is turned off. Any ideas > Digest? > > modelle in somers point << > > > > If you are simply hooking an ohm meter between disconnected positive and > negative battery cables ..... yes you should get a reading .. It is a > complete circuit. > > > > If you are hooking a amp meter between one of the cables and the battery > post (with other cable hooked to it's battery post) then a 1974 era car > would have about 150 mA of current with everything turned off ..because > everything is never completely turned off ..... example: radio memory is > still "on" even with radio "off". > > > > Carl R. Davis > > 2823 S. Rocky Hill Road, Galena, Illinois, USA 61036 > > 750E, 750F, 10121, 105.62, 115.01, 115.41S4 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:08:42 -0700 > From: Joe Elliott <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Re: Leaking oil drain plug, etc > > What kind of resistance are you seeing? Any dashboard clocks, courtesy > lights, etc. that would be energized if the battery were hooked up are > going to give you a finite resistance measurement. If you really do > have everything disconnected and still see a finite resistance, you may > have a short. If the measured resistance is on the order of hundreds of > ohms or more, you're unlikely to catch anything on fire by hooking it up > to see what happens. > > - -Joe > > > alfa-digest wrote: >> Question: After restoring the fuse panel on an old Alfa, installing a rebuilt engine and rewiring many accessories, lights, horn etc... Shouldn't there be no-conductivity between pos and neg battery terminal leads? I've got everything back together and am afeared to connect the battery because of general circuit conductivity. Everything is turned off. Any ideas Digest? > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:22:12 -0700 (PDT) > From: Alan Lambert <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [alfa] RE: Modelle"s current draw > > With the possible exception of the radio, how is that a complete circuit if > everything is off? > > * Cordially, > AlanLambert > ________________________________ > > > > > Le Mardi 10 juin 2014 15h06, Carl R. > Davis <[email protected]> a icrit : > > >> >> >>>> Question: After restoring > the fuse panel on an old Alfa, installing a >> rebuilt engine and rewiring many > accessories, lights, horn etc... Shouldn't >> there be no-conductivity between > pos and neg battery terminal leads? I've >> got everything back together and am > afeared to connect the battery because >> of general circuit conductivity. > Everything is turned off. Any ideas >> Digest? >> >> modelle in somers point << >> >> >> >> If you are simply hooking an ohm meter between disconnected positive and >> negative battery cables ..... yes you should get a reading .. It is a >> complete circuit. >> >> >> >> If you are hooking a amp meter between one of the > cables and the battery >> post (with other cable hooked to it's battery post) > then a 1974 era car >> would have about 150 mA of current with everything turned > off ..because >> everything is never completely turned off ..... example: radio > memory is >> still "on" even with radio "off". >> >> >> >> Carl R. Davis >> >> 2823 S. > Rocky Hill Road, Galena, Illinois, USA 61036 >> >> 750E, 750F, 10121, 105.62, > 115.01, 115.41S4 >> -- >> to be removed from alfa, see > http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi >> or email "unsubscribe alfa" to > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 06:30:02 +0000 > From: Richard Welty <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] administrivia: Powell's Books > > Other ways to support the digest > > Richard's Amazon wishlist: > http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/30PQXKZQN9GWX/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go > (there is more than one list on amazon, see the menu on the left). > > Powell's Books affiliate: > Krusty Motorsports (parent of digest.net) is affiliated with > Powell's Books, a highly regarded bookstore in the Pacific Northwest. > Use this link to access Powells and buy books, and it'll help: > > http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25667 > > ------------------------------ > > End of alfa-digest V10 #2726 > **************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
