Re: [Chrysler300] voltage reducer

[paul holmgren <paulholm@xxxx>]

Park Waldrop wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> This thing is merely a heavy duty 1 ohm wire-wound resistor. What many
> vendors of such simple devices don't say is that it will only reduce by 6v.
> if there is a current of 6a. flowing through it. That current is fairly
> typical of some 6v radios, but most dash instruments don't draw nearly that
> much, thus the resistor wouldn't reduce the supply voltage much, and the
> instruments would be fed too much voltage. A decent solution for dash
> instruments that are fed through a voltage reducer is one available at NAPA
> for about $15 (NAPA/Echlin IR-2). It actually does supply a somewhat
> regulated lower voltage output. I'm using one on my '51 Hudson converted to
> 12v.
> 
> Park Waldrop
> Atlanta
> C cpe

If the device mentioned above is actually just a resister, then the
following comments Park has made hold true to the teachings I have had
over many years of working in electronics/electricity.

-- 
Paul Holmgren
Hoosier Corps #33, L-6
2 57 300-C's in Indy