[TR] gas gauge and voltage regulators

Dave dave1massey at cs.com
Fri Jul 3 06:54:00 MDT 2015


That sounds like a challenge.  Stand by.  ;-)
 

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall <TR3driver at ca.rr.com>
To: triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Fri, Jul 3, 2015 7:12 am
Subject: Re: [TR] gas gauge and voltage regulators


> Electronics is polarity sensitive although an electronic 
> stabilizer
(regulator) can be designed to work with wither 
> polarity by including a full
wave bridge and retuning the 
> circuit to compensate,

Hmm, maybe I'm
missing something.  Seems to me that a full wave bridge wouldn't do, because the
senders have to return to chassis
ground.  The only way I can see to implement
this would be basically two complete regulator circuits with steering diodes so
only
one is functional.  

Lots easier to just use a circuit that matches the
car polarity, which is what the vendors do.  Eg Moss sells 131-555 for
negative
ground, and 131-556 for positive.

It's also pretty easy to build
one for yourself.  I used the can from an old stabilizer (with bad contacts)
similar to what's
shown
here
<http://bob_skelly.home.comcast.net/~bob_skelly/voltageStabilizer/voltageStabilizer.html>
But
there's no reason you have to use the can, it's just a convenient package (with
terminals).

If you want positive ground instead of negative, use a 7910
instead of the 7810, and switch the polarity of the capacitors.

-- Randall 



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