> As to your temperature gauge statement, my experience with the sender > types I described stands. > Indeed, I defer to your greater degree of experience. I probably should have prefaced my remark with "in my limited experience with senders", which was with only two VDO oil temp units. The variable readings I got from two senders on the same gauge were with one of them being of unknown history and dubious functionality-- dirty, discolored, tab broken off and a 18ga wire soldered in its place. Undoubtedly my faulty readings were the result of something other than the thermistor's resistance. If you say sensors are reliable, I take it as true. Though I think I would add the caveat that even something as simple as a thermistor based sensor can be buggered by a determined idiot, even if all he can do is mess up the mechanical connections. Typical OEM gauges use far less accurate methods of displaying temperature. > We're definitely in agreement there, as anyone who's ever taken apart one of those OEM gauges can attest. The Speedhut gauges are serious units and I'll stand behind my inferred > performance. Readout to the degree with modern gauges is limited only by the > eye's interpolation performance. > Yeah, on those you'll definitely see more error just from the resulting parallax of moving your head around than you'd see from sensor variance. -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger" |
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