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wire gauge?
by: JerryScript - Mar 29, 2015 22:20:07 GMT -5
Post by JerryScript on Mar 29, 2015 22:20:07 GMT -5
Jerry,
A larger gauge (lower gauge number) wire will offer LESS resistance. Oops, thanks for the correction, that's what I get for posting right before going to sleep! I should have said so long as the change in resistance doesn't effect the circuit. |
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Post by lain on Apr 1, 2015 15:00:38 GMT -5
looks like a bad ground is causing my problem. 3 wires connect to the frame and all 3 look and feel a bit crispy. i bought the wrong wire when i got a ride to the store earlier. i couldn't find any markings on any wire. they appear to be 6 or 8 gauge. i bought 12 gauge wire, not going to risk doing this again so just gonna wait till i can get back to the store. Think about wires as hallways, and think of people as electricity. A hallway can be wide or thin, if you have a hallway that is only the width of 2 people, and the football team gets out of practice, they aren't going to calmly wait around. They need to get to the locker room, right NOW, so they start to all go towards the lockers at the same time, ending up bumping into each other and causing congestion in the hallway, slowing down the flow and getting everyone heated at each other for bumping into each other. Eventually the team gets sick of it and one of them throws a punch and bam now you can't use that hallway anymore because they trashed it up in their fight. Now how do you solve this dilemma? Bigger halls! Now this may be sort of confusing, but smaller numbers do mean thicker wire, and using too thin of a wire can cause issues. Just remember it, lol. You want to have just enough space for the football team to all get to the locker room without bumping into each other, and even have a little bit of space so maybe one of the players can pass by all of them, because he's a showoff or something, the little extra room in the hallway will allow for free movement to the locker room without everyone getting angry. Hope that helps you understand electricity a little bit more and not just confuse you lol. |
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wire gauge?
by: ramblinman - Apr 1, 2015 18:33:06 GMT -5
Post by ramblinman on Apr 1, 2015 18:33:06 GMT -5
lol lain... i've been zapped half a dozen times by those football players. once unplugging a tv, once starting a lawnmower, working on a car and a few other times touching equipment at work. the last time i got zapped by a stainless steel refrigerator. the cord had exposed wires sending current throughout the whole unit. that one sent me to the ground with my heart fluttering.
needless to say i'm a bit paranoid of those football players. and you are correct, those wires were 10 gauge on my scoot.
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Post by lain on Apr 1, 2015 19:05:40 GMT -5
lol lain... i've been zapped half a dozen times by those football players. once unplugging a tv, once starting a lawnmower, working on a car and a few other times touching equipment at work. the last time i got zapped by a stainless steel refrigerator. the cord had exposed wires sending current throughout the whole unit. that one sent me to the ground with my heart fluttering. needless to say i'm a bit paranoid of those football players. and you are correct, those wires were 10 gauge on my scoot. I'm pretty careful with electricity, I understand it a heck of a lot more than I understand mechanics, which I feel I am still apprentice at best at. Like I know more than most, but I don't feel confident in my knowledge because a lot of it is stuff I pick up randomly without understanding the fundementals behind them. Like, I can figure out electrical stuff really fast, but mechanical stuff I end up taking hours to wrap my head around, like with my carb, I've read a lot of carb documents but I still have trouble understanding how it really works. It is not as simple as connect his and that and crimp these and those and there's no handy light to tell me it's connected right like with my circuit tester lol. |
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Post by ramblinman on May 16, 2015 8:32:56 GMT -5
well, for months my scoot has symptoms of a weak/dead battery but if i let off the starter for a second then it will start perfectly fine. didn't realize i might have loose connections or burnt wires until today. found one of tvnacman's old posts about burnt wires. scoot is finally running great. i even solved my starting issue by replacing the camshaft. the bearings were in bad shape. all that time messing around with wires when the real problem was a bad bearing creating a huge load on the engine. |
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