At 10:35 AM 5/26/2012, Dennis Haynes wrote: >Even the Vanagon gauge is damped for a very slow response. Get fast acting Yes, both our fuel and temp gauges are operated by little heating elements wound around bimetallic strips that bend as they heat up. For a given step change in input, might take as much as a minute to completely stabilize on the new reading (and longer when first starting, as the gauge itself warms and stabilizes). Other fancier gauges may use silicone grease at the pivot to damp the movement, but with the thermal gauges it's built in. Incidentally, the specified calibration tolerance of the gauges themselves is +/- one needle width. Also incidentally, our fuel gauges read low uphill and on/after left turns, and high downhill and on/after right turns. Float is toward the front-left corner of the tank. Yours, David |
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