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Subject: [oletrucks] AD Gas Gauge Fault Located
From: Hudson29@aol.com
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:06:18 EDT
        Thanks to the timely posts of Keith and Mike, I was able to test the 
gas gauge sending unit. With the float fully depressed, it read out at 1.5 
ohms, and with it fully up, the reading was 33.5 ohms. The movement was nice 
and sure and progressive.
        Next the unit was wired back into the system and powered up as 
before. Also, just as before, the needle soared to full and stayed there in 
all float positions. Keith's suggestion about a bad ground proved simple to 
test. A clip lead was run from the gauge body to the seat base and "wallah" 
-- working gas gauge!
        Moving the float fully down produced a reading only on the "dot" for 
empty, and moving it fully up shows only just above the 3/4 full mark. Even 
without full scale deflection, this will be very much more info that the DPO 
was getting out of the gauge.
        A question arises out of this. Had the sending unit read 0 ohms at 
the bottom and more than 33.5, say 50 at the top, would the indicator needle 
have attained full deflection?

Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com
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