mine is working properly today..?

On Sep 13, 2017 2:59 PM, "Liberte, Joel" <joel.liberte@hpe.com> wrote:

> Does that voltage also drive a tach?
>
> Joel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Alistair Bell
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 5:46 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Low readings from gas gauge and temp gauge..84 tintop
>
> Apart from bad connections, those two gauges share the distinction of
> being fed by the voltage reg chip on the foil. You surely understand that
> for the resistive type gauges to work consistently they need to be fed by
> constant voltage . The chip puts out around 10.5
>
> Alistair
>
> > On Sep 13, 2017, at 2:14 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Yesterday I had a period where the fuel gauge and the coolant gauge
> > both were reading very low, and inaccurately... I think this may be a
> > ground issue.
> >  In the past, my temperature read lower than it was when tbe
> > connection was loose at tbe sender, but baving two instruments in tbs
> > same gauge reading too low, that is Odd...any ideas?
> >   For what it's worth, wben .my coolant temperature gauge showed
> > "cold" I bad a fright... thinking I could have no coolant...(I gave up
> on my
> > "coolant level" Warning light years ago).   but a check of the other
> gauges
> > (no alternator light) normal oil temp, normal Oil pressure..that
> > easily confirmed the temperature was ok...And I use my trip meter for
> > my main fuel quantity calculations... I'd driven 260 miles only since
> > my last gas...there we're at least 5 gallons of gas in the tank, yet
> > the gauge needle was below the red...
> > thanks, Don Hanson
>