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RE: TR3 Fuel Gauge

To: "TR" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: RE: TR3 Fuel Gauge
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:33:27 -0800
> I'll confess I don't really know how this works but it would seem likely
> that the left hand magnet will need to have the opposite polarity of the
> right hand magnet.

I don't recall offhand which wire goes where, but the magnets have the same
polarity.  The wire from the sender is connected to the junction between the
two magnets, so one gets weaker and the other gets stronger as the float
changes the resistance.  The gauge works by attraction, not repulsion.

Randall




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