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Subject:Re: Unorthodox Inst. Cluster Electrical Question
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:52:44 -0400

At 08:55 PM 10/20/2009, neil n wrote:
>about cluster info in the Bentley. My other (ratty) air cooled cluster
>has the middle pin connected to the foil, yet has a clock like the one
>I'm currently playing with.

They had to bolt the tab down anyway, for heat sinking.  I bet mfg
thought it was a worthwhile speed improvement to add a clipping
operation in return for only having to align two pins when inserting
instead of three.  Did they even bother to delete the socket on the
flexible circuit?

Yrs,
d