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Re: strange acting guages

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: strange acting guages
From: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:07:31 -0700
Someone out there wrote:
> (A very primitive voltage regulator I might add.)

<<add  :-)  as appropriate. The following is meant to be
educational, not condescending >>

Well, let's see. This primitive device has been running fine in most
cars for 35 years. It's also not Nissan- or Import-specific; Fords have
a few million of 'em in service. It is temperature-compensating and
maintains the accuracy of the gauges over a hundred-degree
temperature range (a simple fixed-voltage regulator won't do that). It
gets the gauges to come off '0' quickly (again, something a fixed-voltage
unit won't do). It does not burn out if someone installs the battery
backwards. And it costs only a few bucks.

If it ain't broke don't insult it
And if it is broke, just buy a new one from one of our vendors!

-- John
     John F Sandhoff   sandhoff@csus.edu   Sacramento, CA

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