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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’d saved something relating to damping the fluctuations in my fuel gauge. I don’t recall if it was originally posted here or if I trawled it off the net. I’d made a few notes and filed it appropriately against some day in the future when I might get round to actually doing it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, my nephew’s fuel gauge bounces around far more than mine and this prompted me to dig out the article/notes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First off, I agree that there’s no sense in putting the capacitor anywhere near the fuel tank.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Having said that, I read the advice that I’d stored so carefully and began to wonder if I’d understood it correctly. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is the capacitor really supposed to be wired across the two terminals on the gauge? Would it have any effect? To put it crudely, but in the language that I can understand, wouldn’t the fluctuations still come down the Green/Black wire from the sender unit and hit the gauge’s terminal T? And wouldn’t those fluctuations still register as such on the gauge, totally unaffected by the capacitor? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Shouldn’t the capacitor be wired in such a fashion that the fluctuations cannot bypass it?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe I’m over complicating things and should just try it without understanding it. Maybe I think too much.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>