Come to think of it, I installed one of the metric instrument panels from
Ron last year, and the LED/gauge still acts the same way.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Drillock" <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: Help! Appeal for data

> I agree, the only way I can think off is if some control units
> superimposed a signal that was ignored by the gauge. If the rain stops
> long enough to dry the ground I will unload the stuff from the rear of
> my 87 and see how it behaves. Then I will look at the control unit.
>
> Mark
>
> David Beierl wrote:
> >
> > >Mark wrote:
> > >My 83.5 would blink the led with a low level in the
> > >tank but the gauge would stay put.
> >
> > It seems to me that that this *could not happen* with the wiring as
> > described.  Can you think of a way to influence the light and not the
> > needle, given only one input terminal to the gauge?  All I can think of
is
> > superimposing some sort of AC signal on the DC...seems far-fetched
somehow.
> >
> > Thoughts?  ISTM we need to find one that behaves the other way and trace
> > the circuit etc and find out what it's really doing...
> >
> > david
> >
>