I believe that, at least back when electric chokes were first becoming
popular, the power feed to the choke heater came off of the alternator
output tap, so that the choke *only* got power when the engine was
actually running.

This was to prevent the situation where an "On" ignition key would
power up the choke heater *before* the engine was started, thus giving
a non functioning fully open choke while engine itself was still cold
and needed the full choke operation.


Hale

--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "denisond3d3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Duane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am about to install an Edelbrock carb with an electric choke.  Has
> > anyone installed one of these and if so where did you wire the choke
> > wire to and how big a fuse did you use. It is going on a '76
> > Executive MH with a 440-3 engine and Dodge chassis.
> >
> >  When I got my winny it had a holley with a mechanical choke
> conversion, BUT; I think the original electric choke wire just ran
> back to where the ignition circuit fed the white ceramic ignition
> resistor.   One of its terminals would have 12 volts on it whenever
> the ignition was on the run position, and you could connect to that
wire.
>   If your electric choke has two wires, like the 318 electric chokes
> did, the other wire would simply be grounded to any convenient part of
> the block or intake manifold.
>    To me the hardest part of installing a different carburetor was
> always getting the throttle and kickdown linkage to work without
> hangups.





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