On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Roger Garnett quoted Pat Vilbrandt:
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> Keep in mind, tho, that the mechanical voltage stabilizer/gauge combination
> may have inherent temperature compensation built in as a _system_. I seem to
> recall someone mentioning that after they had built a solid-state equivalent,
> their gauges showed some variability as the ambient temperature changed.
> Pat Vilbrandt Fluke Corporation Everett, Washington USA
> pwv@tc.fluke.COM or: { uunet, uw-beaver, sun, microsoft }!fluke!pwv
>
Excellent point. The worst part is that the gauges would read high in
hot weather... when the temperature gauge might already be reading a high
coolant temperature, this might compound the error.... The voltage
stablizer should be delivering a shorter duty cycle in hot conditions
than cold conditions.
(Boomer alert): Sometimes I am glad I used to play the game "Mousetrap",
you know, the one where you built a Rube Goldberg device.... early
training for Britcars and Goal-Oriented Iterative Terminal Entry and
Reentry (hacking out a program).
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