Oops--- Warning! Warning! Brain fart in progress! Pay no attention to that vanagon behind the curtain, etc. etc. After posting my thermocouple expertise for all to see, I actually looked it up and found out I was flat wrong, while David Schwarze was right. A thermocouple is a pair of dissimilar metals bonded together, which produce a voltage when heated, all by themselves. Such a device may indeed be inside the CHT gauge, and would need no external power to operate if correctly designed. The gadget I described (a resistor which varied its resistance with temperature), is a "thermistor", and must be powered externally to run a gauge. This is what's in the water-temp sensor of the V6anagon. *** Activating oral foot-removal procedure *** <pop> :-\ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Maher smaher@gi.com '80 V6anagon w/Chevy 2800 '66 Mustang Coupevertible, for sale Check out the cars at http://www.lookup.com/homepages/76242/home.html *** What part of "Shall not be Infringed" don't you understand? *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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