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Hahaha well Frank let's consider the fact that someone who doesn't know much about a solinoide, 9 times out of 10, most likely won't know what to do if given a solinoide, some.... Jumper cables lol, (I'll add alligator clips for a more friendly approach) and a 9v battery.... Good luck grabbing those terminals man...
Or you can just use a voltometer to make sure the solinoide resistance rang is within spec. As far as amp's... Now if you want to do it with some alligator clips, you'll take your solinoide that your testing and connect your negative from your jumper, guess well go ahead and use a 9v battery for this one, hook the negative from the 9v to the negative of the solinoide terminals, which, could have more than 2 but well just call it.... Then you'll connect one end of the positive to your 9v, and with the other end of the positive you'll just tap the solinoides positive terminal. When you do this, you should hear a very distinct, or reasonably loud enough "click" come from the solinoide... Which you can if you choose, use as a determining factor whether it's in fact good or not. Or you can use a voltometer in a similar fashion in which it will actually display the resistance of the noid in amps... Which we'd want to then just compare figures with spec. ...
Very basic procedure, but for someone that doesn't have experience in doing such a simple task, well.... It's really not so simple.... Hopefully you get the just of the idea, if you can wait I'll take those pics for you and make you a write up k. Should be getting to doing that today actually.... (Sat. If not, Sunday k.) sit tight.
Or you can just use a voltometer to make sure the solinoide resistance rang is within spec. As far as amp's... Now if you want to do it with some alligator clips, you'll take your solinoide that your testing and connect your negative from your jumper, guess well go ahead and use a 9v battery for this one, hook the negative from the 9v to the negative of the solinoide terminals, which, could have more than 2 but well just call it.... Then you'll connect one end of the positive to your 9v, and with the other end of the positive you'll just tap the solinoides positive terminal. When you do this, you should hear a very distinct, or reasonably loud enough "click" come from the solinoide... Which you can if you choose, use as a determining factor whether it's in fact good or not. Or you can use a voltometer in a similar fashion in which it will actually display the resistance of the noid in amps... Which we'd want to then just compare figures with spec. ...
Very basic procedure, but for someone that doesn't have experience in doing such a simple task, well.... It's really not so simple.... Hopefully you get the just of the idea, if you can wait I'll take those pics for you and make you a write up k. Should be getting to doing that today actually.... (Sat. If not, Sunday k.) sit tight.
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Hahaha well Frank let's consider the fact that someone who doesn't know much about a solinoide, 9 times out of 10, most likely won't know what to do if given a solinoide, some.... Jumper cables lol, (I'll add alligator clips for a more friendly approach) and a 9v battery.... Good luck grabbing those terminals man...
Or you can just use a voltometer to make sure the solinoide resistance rang is within spec. As far as amp's... Now if you want to do it with some alligator clips, you'll take your solinoide that your testing and connect your negative from your jumper, guess well go ahead and use a 9v battery for this one, hook the negative from the 9v to the negative of the solinoide terminals, which, could have more than 2 but well just call it.... Then you'll connect one end of the positive to your 9v, and with the other end of the positive you'll just tap the solinoides positive terminal. When you do this, you should hear a very distinct, or reasonably loud enough "click" come from the solinoide... Which you can if you choose, use as a determining factor whether it's in fact good or not. Or you can use a voltometer in a similar fashion in which it will actually display the resistance of the noid in amps... Which we'd want to then just compare figures with spec. ...
Very basic procedure, but for someone that doesn't have experience in doing such a simple task, well.... It's really not so simple.... Hopefully you get the just of the idea, if you can wait I'll take those pics for you and make you a write up k. Should be getting to doing that today actually.... (Sat. If not, Sunday k.) sit tight.
Or you can just use a voltometer to make sure the solinoide resistance rang is within spec. As far as amp's... Now if you want to do it with some alligator clips, you'll take your solinoide that your testing and connect your negative from your jumper, guess well go ahead and use a 9v battery for this one, hook the negative from the 9v to the negative of the solinoide terminals, which, could have more than 2 but well just call it.... Then you'll connect one end of the positive to your 9v, and with the other end of the positive you'll just tap the solinoides positive terminal. When you do this, you should hear a very distinct, or reasonably loud enough "click" come from the solinoide... Which you can if you choose, use as a determining factor whether it's in fact good or not. Or you can use a voltometer in a similar fashion in which it will actually display the resistance of the noid in amps... Which we'd want to then just compare figures with spec. ...
Very basic procedure, but for someone that doesn't have experience in doing such a simple task, well.... It's really not so simple.... Hopefully you get the just of the idea, if you can wait I'll take those pics for you and make you a write up k. Should be getting to doing that today actually.... (Sat. If not, Sunday k.) sit tight.
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