Joseph, They work by bleeding current to ground (the big tab). In so doing, they generate heat. Lots of it. Sooo, you need to have a REALLY good connection to keep them cool. A bad ground (not detectable by a VOM) will cause them to go bad. I too went through MANY of them. Finally my buddy Dan Houg from Bemidji put together a little external variable voltage regulator circuit which I wired in and adjusted. It's been working ever since. On Thu, 21 May 1998, Joseph J. Liasse wrote: > I am on my 4th one of these. Each one I put in will work for a while > (from 2-6 months) and then will suddenly "half blow" (for lack of a better > term). In the "half blown" state both the fuel and temp gages will read [etc] -- Gerry Gerald Skerbitz <g-sker@umn.edu> U of MN Academic Health Center Administrative Information Systems 6-5379 Home St. Paul,Ramsey County,Minnesota, USA |
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