[Healeys] Fuel gauge damper query

[simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com]

Hi,
Thank you all for the advice. The eBay number takes one to a 4.4f unit.
Apparently I need 1f. I gather that will create 4.4 times less damping.
Makes sense. Still be a bit slow I'd think.
The thing costs pennies. I'll give it a shot.
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: sentenac.rw at gmail.com <sentenac.rw at gmail.com> 
Sent: 04 February 2019 06:46
To: simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com
Cc: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fuel gauge damper query

Here are two thoughts, Simon,

First, you most likely won't be consuming petrol so fast that a five minute
lag in display would cause trouble.

Second, you don't tell us what size cap you got, 1 farad?  5 farads?
or what?  If you got one that was half the size, say 1 farad instead of 2,
the gauge should respond twice as fast, or half as slow -- take your pick.

-Roland

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 00:07:25 -0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>See the attached. I can't recall whose work I was pirating, but I was 
>interested in it anyway. The latter two paragraphs were added by me 
>after consulting with you guys.
>
>So, in the end, I got around to trying it myself. I bought this:- eBay
>item:-  152332450334
>
>It wasn't hard to fit and in it went...
>
>Now, I know less  about capacitors and milliwotsits than I do about 
>kiloton yields and so I just bought what seemed closest to the spec on 
>the original article.
>
>Results? Well, it was a success in a way. The needle didn't bounce 
>around but it was so damped that it moved like a glacier on a cold day. 
>It did get up to where it should be, but took, quite literally, 5 
>minutes to do so. All good connections, all per the diagram. Gauge working
fine before and after.
>
>So...I suppose that I bought the wrong thing. Can anybody be very kind 
>and tell me precisely what I should have bought? All the clever little 
>numbers and symbols. I don't have to understand it; I just have to fit it.
>
>And, before you all shout at once, I have Michael's alternative in mind 
>and will probably finish with it as a permanent fix. It's just that I 
>can't bear to be beaten by a tuppeny-happeny capacitor.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Simon
>
>