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re: Voltage stabilizer, HELP!

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Subject: re: Voltage stabilizer, HELP!
From: jell@km21.zfe.siemens.de (Thomas Jell)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 09:26:39 +0200

>There is no mention of a connection to the case, or any ground ("earth"
for our UK friends).

But it's usually screwed to the speedometer and that's ground !!!

It won't work without ground.

So I'm not very confident about having one of the three connections connected 
to ground.

So I would go for
  a double connection with both 12v in and out to the oil pressure gauge,
       green wires
   single connection to temperature gauge, green/lightgreen wire
   single connection to fuel gauge, green/lightgreen wire
   case mounted to ground

That's how the did it in my Spitfire.

> ... although the Lucas method apparently used a
bimetallic electromechanical device of some sort, which chops the voltage
up into pulses which average out to a lower voltage.

exactly how they do it, fine English workmanship. If you have a broken one, 
take the time to look into !

>BTW, I have heard 10v, 6v and 4.5v as the voltage these things are
supposed to regulate to.  Anybody know?

No I'm not able to check it. If you use a voltmeter you can follow the impluses 
... 

Let me know how things proceed

  Tom

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