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Re: Fool pumps

To: mgs@autox.team.net, ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Fool pumps
From: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:17:28 -0400
> Reply-To: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
> 
> In <9607031941.AA02111@genesis.torrington.com>, Mark Jurras wrote:
> >> Reply-To: Kevin Sullivan <kevins@borris.khoros.unm.edu>
> >>
> >> > Does anyone know how to tell the difference between a negative and 
>positive
> >> > ground fuel pump?
> >> 
> >> I was told that the diode was reversed; no other difference.  This is not 
> >> first hand knowledge, however.
> >
> >What Diode???
> 
- -excellent description snipped- -
> 
> About 20 years ago SU got smart and discovered power diodes
> 

Ah, that explains why, when I had my 30 year old SU pump apart it had a 
capacitor to absorb the back EMF instead of a diode clamp.

Tnx,

- -Mark   = =o&o

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