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Iowa Park, TX
For the electrical geniuses out there...
We are restoring another Italian L-21. After seeing one of the photos in Steve's presentation last week, we've decided to move the electrics from the wing to the panel. I'm going to leave the switch panel and ammeter in the wing because it is in Italian and will look right, but it will be non-functional. That means there will have to be a working ammeter in the panel unless I run current up to the one in the wing. That would defeat the purpose of moving the electrics in the first place.
My question is: Is it possible to use an external shunt to keep the main juice behind the panel and just run two small wires to drive the internally shunted ammeter in the wing? That would achieve the goal of moving the power while keeping the original look. The external shunt ammeters I've found just wouldn't look right.
We are restoring another Italian L-21. After seeing one of the photos in Steve's presentation last week, we've decided to move the electrics from the wing to the panel. I'm going to leave the switch panel and ammeter in the wing because it is in Italian and will look right, but it will be non-functional. That means there will have to be a working ammeter in the panel unless I run current up to the one in the wing. That would defeat the purpose of moving the electrics in the first place.
My question is: Is it possible to use an external shunt to keep the main juice behind the panel and just run two small wires to drive the internally shunted ammeter in the wing? That would achieve the goal of moving the power while keeping the original look. The external shunt ammeters I've found just wouldn't look right.