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RE: Fuel guage sender ohms, second try -Reply

To: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>, Matt.Kulka@hboc.com
Subject: RE: Fuel guage sender ohms, second try -Reply
From: Christopher T Palmer <ctp@gbn.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:03:38 +0100
A fuel tank sender is a variable resistor.  The uneven spacing of lines on
a guage is because the resistance output of the sender is not linear per
quantity of fuel in the tank.

CTP


At 10:23 PM +0000 1/13/98, Scott Gardner wrote:
> My brother's BMW had the 1/4-tank marks spaced unevenly
>along the face of the gauge, but they were accurate.  Perhaps this
>was to compensate for problems with the gauge?




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