On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Edward Duntz <eduntz@hotmail.com> wrote: > Could you please explain how it comes into play at start-up? I thought it > defaulted to "cold," in which case if it were faulty it would have an effect > when warm, but not on start-up. > > The temp sensor II doesn't have any default setting. The resistance simply varies with temperature. Cold it might read 6000 ohms, decreasing to a few hundred when warm. I had one fail to a low enough resistance value that I couldn't start the engine in cold weather. A 5000 ohm fixed resistor got things warmed up enough to get me home! Angus
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