See what you've driven me to?

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)]

Radio Shack sells a 147 ohm resistor @ 1.2 w for about 10 cents.
Never any rest for the afflicted right?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:13 PM
>To: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: See what you've driven me to?
>
>Yeah, it's become a geek-fest in my garage. I just got in from trying to 
>get my dash water temp guage to work. The problem is the ABA sensor and the
>MkI gauge don't play nice, the guage pegs at hot. So I'd tossed in the
>largest resistor I had and that pegged it at rest position. Which it never
>moved from. So something between nothing and 1000 ohms is right. So I ask
>the kid (he's gotta be good for something), he's got a potentiometer handy,
>likely from a helicopter. So here I am after twisting the dial and boiling
>water to immerse a spare sensor in, and it's still not perfect, but I'm
>closer. 150 ohms seems to be what's called for. Of course that means adding
>up about six resistors in series. When I got the 16V a few years back, I
>didn't even know how to disconnect the battery cables. The other projects
>today were washing three cars (Bug/Klaus/Mustang, don't ask), getting a
>spare engine and tranny into a spot where I didn't keep knocking my shins
>on them, and figuring out fitment for battery relocation and the cutoff
>switch to go with it. All the piddly shit takes so much time! It was a
>beautiful fall day for it though. Hope you all had good weekends.
>cathy
>
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