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Originally Posted by DanEC
It is a battery gage but outside of the Corvette world I wasn’t sure many would understand the term. I wasn’t sure how much juice was sent through it. They have voltmeter conversions for them too, based on the same stories of dangers from the original gage - possibly overblown.
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As I understand it, the C1 amp gauges actually carry a lot of current like the Cobra gauge you've been discussing. The C2 gauge connects to the wire between the alternator and the buss in the engine compartment at two different places. The very small voltage difference between those two points is what it senses and displays. It can be disconnected and everything else continues to work normally. . . My C2 is far from stock and I modified my instrument panel to include a voltmeter rather than the BATT gauge.