Hello Terry, Is the resistance linear in both the senders? ie, at half tank the resistance is halfway through the range? If so, then I should be able to tell you how to "recalibrate" the 200B sender to provide the same resistance scale as the 1600 sender using 2 resisters, total cost would be about 20c from any electronics store, and you could use the fuel tanks present sender.
Tuesday, February 05, 2002, 1:12:55 AM, you wrote: TR> Richard, TR> I've done this on a 1600 a long time ago and I've been talking directly to TR> Chris but as I cant find the tech info on how I did this last time due to a TR> HDD blow up some time back and I lost a lot of stuff. I'll paste where we're TR> up to but I could do with some help from the list. TR> The 180B sender idea just might work with a 1600 gauge without all the TR> frigging around getting a 200B sender to work accurately. Do you know what TR> voltage a 180B dash pod runs at and also what is the resistance range of a TR> 180B sender. It just may be the same as the 1600 and that leads me to think TR> that this route just may be a better solution than trying to figure out how TR> to get around the complexity of the 1600 gauge/200B sender problem. TR> Pasted for info >> I'll have to give this some more thought - first impressions of the >> problem at hand is that a 200B gauge and sender wont work in a 1600 - >> the 1600 pod voltage is 5v and the sender is 0-100 ohms. A 200B pod >> voltage is only 3v and the sender resistance is something like 15-85 >> ohms so you see the problem. I'm not sure about the temp gauge sender >> on the 200B either so you could fix the fuel sender and frig the temp >> sender, there were at least 2 (VDO & Niles). >> >> I think using the 200B sender with a resister, probably adjustable is >> the go with the stock 1600 gauge. >> >> I'll be back >> >> TR TR> regards TR> Terry TR> -----Original Message----- TR> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TR> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Clough TR> Sent: Monday, 4 February 2002 10:23 PM TR> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TR> Subject: Re: 200B fuel tank in 1600 fuel gauge calibration? TR> Chris, TR> I cant answer your gauge problem but have you tried it? 180B tank sender TR> units work fine with a 1600 gauge. If your not keen to connect it in the TR> tank, remove the sender unit from the tank and connect to the wiring loom TR> and earth. Operate the float arm and see if the gauge registers correctly TR> over the travel of the sender unit arm. Do it slowly as the gauge is TR> designed to move slowly to avoid wild fluctuations. TR> Can you give us description of how you fitted the bigger 200B tank and fuel TR> filler, a few listers have been thinking of trying this for the larger TR> range. TR> ----- Original Message ----- TR> From: "Chris Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TR> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TR> Sent: Friday, 25 January 2002 9:54 AM TR> Subject: 200B fuel tank in 1600 fuel gauge calibration? >> Hi All, >> I have recently put a 200B fuel tank in my 1600 and was woundering how TR> to >> calibrate the fuel guage as I was told it would read on about half way TR> when >> it is full. >> >> Regards >> >> Chris W >> >> >> -- Best regards, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
