Re: Mike's 53 Clipper
Posted by Tobs On 2017/7/27 15:16:49
Still doing little jobs. I got my courtesy lights and the light on the roof in the backseat working. I also installed the voltage reducer I made a while back for powering the clock! I had soldered this thing together and it cuts the 12 or 14 volt input down to a constant 6.7 volts regardless of load. Although the clock dosn't really draw much current. Way back when, I tried running my clock on 12 volts, and then tried running it on 6-7 volts. I found that it wound "softer" and that the cycles between winding were longer when running the clock on the normal voltage.
Anyway, I just drilled a small hole in the bracket that comes down from the cowl to the steering column, and attached the voltage reducer to it. Wired the 12v to the circuit breaker for the body feed that used to supply the clock and installed a fuse. The ground between the 12v and 6v is common, so that is just a body ground. Then the 6v signal goes to the clock! It's been running 2 hrs now and is keeping good time.
It is really cool to have that thing ticking in the dashboard!
My fingers are crossed that the clock and voltage reducer keep working. It only draws 20 milli Amps, so battery drain for about a month at a time should be no probelm, but I will be monitoring it the next few days.
Hope you can picture where this is under the dash. The thick black cable is the radio antenne cable, and the steel bowden cables are for the heater controlls.
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Anyway, I just drilled a small hole in the bracket that comes down from the cowl to the steering column, and attached the voltage reducer to it. Wired the 12v to the circuit breaker for the body feed that used to supply the clock and installed a fuse. The ground between the 12v and 6v is common, so that is just a body ground. Then the 6v signal goes to the clock! It's been running 2 hrs now and is keeping good time.
It is really cool to have that thing ticking in the dashboard!
My fingers are crossed that the clock and voltage reducer keep working. It only draws 20 milli Amps, so battery drain for about a month at a time should be no probelm, but I will be monitoring it the next few days.
Hope you can picture where this is under the dash. The thick black cable is the radio antenne cable, and the steel bowden cables are for the heater controlls.
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