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Spitfire Temp gauge (repeat)

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Spitfire Temp gauge (repeat)
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 20:34:51 -0500


Sorry if this is a repeat -- I was booted off the list right after I sent
it. Please  repost any replies to me.

+++++++Original Message++++++++++++++

The Temperature gauge on my  '79 Spitfire suddenly quit working. (Kind of
like me at 5 o'clock!)  The needle doesn't budge.

The gas gauge works OK. I am getting the pulsed voltage at the sender unit
lead  (measured with my digital multimeter), about one pulse every second.

Resistance at the sender is varying with temp, from 33K ohms hot to 147K cold.

1.  Are these sender readings OK?   Could anybody check theirs as a
comparison?

2.  If I short the sender lead to ground, will I hurt anything? [I don't
want to ruin my voltage stabilizer or gauge.]

TIA


Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire  FM96062 UO

Succasunna, NJ USA
"There are three types of people in this world:
those that are good with numbers, and those that aren't."

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