[Public-List] Alternators -- Try a voltmeter!

[Michael]

I was always partial to the ammeter on the original A4. Showing actual 
loads and charge rates was reassuring-pegged ammeter, look for a short 
etc.
More complicated wiring though, a shunt being needed through which 
actual current flowed. Simpler (read cheaper) is why new vehicles have 
voltmeters.
My "57 Chevy pickup had an ammeter. Of course, it also had the starter 
motor button mounted on the floorboard-no starter solenoid. Technology 
marches on...

Michael Grosh
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