DeTomaso Mailing List: November 2000, Message #4

At 07:10 PM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The smoke was still thick, but diminishing when I hopped out and peered
under 
>the dash, and I saw the source of the smoke was my MSD tach adapter.  
>Apparently, when the alternator is producing 1.21 gigawatts of energy and
you 
>remove the path to the battery, that power takes the path of least 
>resistance, which in this case appears to have been DIRECTLY to the tach 
>adapter. :<(

Yes, this is very bad on a Ford, the alternator puts out something like 50
volts with no battery.  Ask me how I know this.


>(A side note--As Shane first revealed, most people don't know that the
single 
>root source of power in electrical applications is SMOKE.  You can take all 
>your EE degrees and pile them to the rafters, but I'm here to tell ya, the 
>minute you remove the smoke from ANY electrical component, that component no 
>longer works.  Ergo, the component is powered by smoke!)
>
Ah, Mike, Not completely.  There is smoke in there, but a specific
quantity.  If you get it shut off fast enough it will still work..Ergo, my
EFI control that I let smoke out of before Vegas last year which is still
working.

Dave "must be carefull to not let the rest out" D