29th December - post #152 - put up a wiring diagram and was not too sure about where the power feed from the Boyer box should go. On advice from another source, was told that the ammeter needed to be downstream of the ignition switch and the power feed needed to be downstream of the ammeter. This is all about letting the ammeter work properly. So the wiring I have implemented over the past few days has been more like this:
The relevant change is the feed from the Boyer box now joins the circuit after the ignition switch.
But with the engine running on after switching off, Ima thinking maybe the little electrons from the alternator aren't getting the message that the party's over so they're racing along through the kill switch, coil and points? That ignition switch is a kill-joy with no relevance to their fun.
A good test of this hypothesis would be to simply disconnect the feed wire - engine should stop as soon as Ignition is turned off.
But I think the solution is to revert to my earlier sketch and put the feed between the battery and the ignition. Anybody foresee any problems with that?
Gonna have to do a lot of tidying up anyhow.
The relevant change is the feed from the Boyer box now joins the circuit after the ignition switch.
But with the engine running on after switching off, Ima thinking maybe the little electrons from the alternator aren't getting the message that the party's over so they're racing along through the kill switch, coil and points? That ignition switch is a kill-joy with no relevance to their fun.
A good test of this hypothesis would be to simply disconnect the feed wire - engine should stop as soon as Ignition is turned off.
But I think the solution is to revert to my earlier sketch and put the feed between the battery and the ignition. Anybody foresee any problems with that?
Gonna have to do a lot of tidying up anyhow.