See what you've driven me to?

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

The local nearest equivalent (The Source by Circuit City, what a catchy
name) doesn't have them, so that would mean I'd have to go to the mall in
the city <shiver>. NOt sure it's worth driving an hour each way for a $.10
part. OTOH, I DO have the little guys that I could splice together. So I'll
try that first.
Cathy

 On 5:31 am 10/22/07 julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 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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