<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Simon, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">The statement <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">"I believe that any energy storage device near petrol vapour is extremely dangerous." <font color="#000000">is probably quite true but whether the capacitor is connected at the gauge or the sender unit does not, IMHO, make an iota of difference. <br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font color="#000000">The discharge from the capacitor would travel from the gauge to the tank in about 0.00000001 of a millisecond and it's doubtful that it would have diminished very much during the journey. Having seen the petrol tank of an upright Ford Prefect explode in spectacular fashion about 45 years ago I can assure you that I'm really nervous about this type of modification.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font color="#000000">I think <a href="http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/2015/09/06/smiths-and-jaegar-fuel-gauge-solution/">this</a> is probably a lot safer but if I was to be doing another I might even use a light weight braided wire rather than the coiled brass.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font color="#000000">M</font></span><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 8:33 PM <<a href="mailto:simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com">simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB"><div class="gmail-m_-1582504481031511528WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So, in the end, I got around to trying it myself. I bought this:- eBay item:- 152332450334<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It wasn’t hard to fit and in it went…..<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So…….I suppose that I bought the wrong thing. Can anybody be very kind and tell me <u>precisely </u>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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Simon<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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