Wow, Gerry still lives.....   As an addition to that advise, when you install
one, use "heat sink grease". it is available at Radio Shack.
Mark

Gerald Skerbitz wrote:

> Joseph,
> They work by bleeding current to ground (the big tab). In so doing, they
> generate heat. Lots of it. Sooo, you need to have a REALLY good connection to
> keep them cool. A bad ground (not detectable by a VOM) will cause them to go
> bad. I too went through MANY of them. Finally my buddy Dan Houg from Bemidji
> put together a little external variable voltage regulator circuit which I
> wired in and adjusted. It's been working ever since.
>
> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Joseph J. Liasse wrote:
> >      I am on my 4th one of these. Each one I put in will work for a while
> > (from 2-6 months) and then will suddenly "half blow" (for lack of a better
> > term). In the "half blown" state both the fuel and temp gages will read
> [etc]
>
> --
> Gerry
> Gerald Skerbitz <g-sker@umn.edu>
> U of MN Academic Health Center Administrative Information Systems  6-5379
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