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Re: optimistic fuel gauge / formula one trivia

To: "O'Farrell, Fergus" <Ofarrell.Fergus@hitco.com>
Subject: Re: optimistic fuel gauge / formula one trivia
From: "Patrick J. Horne" <horne@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:06:54 -0600 (CST)
Furgus,

When my regulator (not resistor, which I don't believe there is one), both
my temperature and fuel gauge both read low, so I suspect that you have a
bad dash regulator. It turned out that there was a high resistance
connection where one of the brass rivets connected the electrical
connection to the bi-metal strip inside. After 33 years I figure that this
regulator has more than served its time!

Peace,
Pat

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, O'Farrell,  Fergus wrote:

> So now I've heard that if the resistor is blown your gas gauge reads low and
> the temp gauge reads high.  Mine both read low, bad grounding maybe?
> I agree with Gordon, the turning G-force seen in F1 makes me get real bored
> watching NASCAR, but that is only an opinion.  F1 anecdote: My workplace
> sells carbon/carbon brakes & rotors to F1 teams, and the sales rep was
> recently told that the downforce created was sufficient for the car, at full
> speed, to drive on an inverted surface, if you could only get it there at
> speed.   Hmm, modify one of those hi-speed test tracks so that after the 90
> degree banked turn you go up rather than down and drive on the roof?
> Fergus O, pondering the improbable
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