Date:         Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:55:28 -0700
Reply-To:     neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Unorthodox Inst. Cluster Electrical Question
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 07:14 PM 10/20/2009, neil n wrote:
>>
>> A temp gauge with a digital clock?
>
> No, an analog(ue) clock with both temp and fuel gauges, top and bottom.
>
>
>> Looking through Bentley section 90 at USA and Canada '80-'84, I don't
>> see a cluster with a temp gauge and analogue clock.
>
> That section is infuriatingly thin, misleading and inaccurate.  They're
> using air-cooled panel images to pass for all the 2.0l/1.9l Vanagons and the
> diesels too.  It's a rotten shame.  Getting anything from there involves
> combing the entire section and pulling bits out from all over the place.
>
>>  Don't know why,
>> but really like the old school clock.   :)
>
> Me too.  Mine was also extraordinarily accurate, easily within five seconds
> a month IIRC, winter and summer.  But the difference is that I *enjoy* the
> clock but I *value* the tach, so the tach wins.
>
>
>> Also, in studying section 90, I noticed that the middle pin of my '81
>> voltage stabilizer, is not connected.
>>
>> Since the metal tab on the voltage stabilizer is attached to ground
>> path on foil, is this providing ground to the stabilizer in place of
>> pin 2?
>
> Yes, it's a common configuration in packages like that, that the heat-sink
> tab will be connected to one of the pins.  Which is why when you reach into
> your stereo you might find a couple of big heat sinks at plus and minus
> sixty volts or so...always pays to check before poking at things.


Thanks David.

A tach is something else I'll get around to. And I see what you mean
about cluster info in the Bentley. My other (ratty) air cooled cluster
has the middle pin connected to the foil, yet has a clock like the one
I'm currently playing with.

Interesting to see how things come apart.

-- 
Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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