How to removing ammeter

Goldfinger said:

The old ammeter no longer works... is redundant anyway with my new(er) more sophisticated battman system that measures everything electrical anyway.

I want to remove the old metre. I understand the metre is wired in series. SO can I just unbolt the cables tabbed to either side of the metre, then just rejoin the two cable tabs together by-passing the old metre, so completing the circuit?

Thanks in advance.

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The simple answer is maybe.

Case 1) You have thin wires going to the ammeter. They lead back to a "Shunt." The shunt has heavy wires on both sides. You can:
a) Just disconnect the wires going to the ammeter or
b) Remove both the ammeter wires and the shunt by hooking the wires on each side of the shunt to each other.

Case 2) (Internal Shunt) You have very heavy wires going to the ammeter. Simply hook them together.

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