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Date:         Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:27:15 EDT
Reply-To:     THX0001@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         George Goff <THX0001@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: I4 conversion speed sensor
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In a message dated 9/21/02 1:03:32 PM, stcullen@TELOCITY.COM writes:


<< The Vanagon ain't got no speed sensor. >>


I don't know if THE Vanagon ain't got no speed sensor, but MINE does.  Of
course, my Vanagoon also has factory-installed cruise control.


<<Luckily a speed sensor is pretty easy and cheap to make, using magnetic
reed switches (the kind usually found in window alarm systems). >>


Oh yes, good ol' American ingenuity at its best where a switch, any switch,
will do; where a mechanical device which is designed to change its state
perhaps once a month is toggled hundreds of times a minute, hour upon dreary
hour, and expected to be dependable.  With the availability and dirt cheap
prices of all things silicon, why not merely hack together an active device?


George
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