ammeter/ gen light replacement

[llong66]

I am trying to decide what I want to do as far as adding some gauges in place or/ along with some of my idiot lights and have a question. As far as the gen lights go, I understand that the bulb is part of the circuit and from what I understand whatever you replace it with must have the same resistance. What I am wondering is can you buy a replacement ammeter from someplace like LMC and use it in place of the bulbs? I figure if this would work, it would require very little modification to the actual dash board.

 

[M1008driver]

Anybody? I was wondering too and have never read anything about it. I was thinking about a whole new instrument panel some day.

 

[llong66]

I am a little unsure if the gauge I am looking at through LMC is a true ammeter, it has a small pic of a battery and a +nd - side, seems it shows if the battery is charging. Is this all an ammeter does as opposed to showing the actual draw?

 

[doghead]

It wont work.

 

[llong66]

Thanks doghead, is there any gauge that WILL work?

 

[doghead]

No, not with the stock wiring.

An advanced search in the CUCV forum for 'gauge, idot, ammeter, amp, digital, analog, etc", will pull up a few threads where others have done some custom installs.

IMHO, the lights do all you need.