Quote: The set up even when the car was new was marginal.
The engineer who decided to run all that power through the bulkhead then through an ammeter should have been fired.
Run the charge wire right to the battery.
Best advice in this thread by a mile.
Yes the ammeter will no longer read anything, BUT the ammeter doesn't tell you much anyway. Even at the best of times, it only tells you if there is out put. A volt meter tells you very clearly whether you have enough output with one simple number.
