Bill;
You've just pointed out the fatal flaw in those fancy digital guages. Just a
glimpse DOESN'T tell them wot's wot!
My old '85 'Vette had a very fancy LCD digital display that looked like a
pinball machine. Frankly, the mechanical white-on-black Stewart-Warner
analog guages in my long-departed Studebaker Golden Hawk were far more
readable.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: ardunbill@webtv.net [mailto:ardunbill@webtv.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:45 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Easier to read guages?
Neil, needles 'straight up' is a good idea, and an old one. The Brit
road-racing mc writers were telling novices at least 60 or 70 years ago to
set their rev-counters(tachometers) so that at whatever red-line they wanted
to use, the needle was at 12 o'clock. In 'the heat of battle', just a
glimpse would tell them wot's wot. This trick may have been thought up even
years before that, for all I know. Needless to say, that's how I set up the
tacho in #124. Bill
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